Mayo Clinic identifies best treatments for long-term survival in brain tumour patients
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 05:55
in Health & Medicine
A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumour. If safely removing the entire tumour was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy. This study is available online as an advance publication in Neuro-Oncology...