New approach for the treatment of malignant brain tumours

Initial chemotherapy alone after surgery is just as successful as initial radiation therapy for patients from whom a very malignant brain tumour (anaplastic glioma) was removed. With this treatment, the patients survive on average more than 30 months without a recurrence. A study conducted by the Neurooncology Working Group of the German Cancer Society led by researchers from Heidelberg and Zuerich showed that patients in primary therapy benefit to the same extent from chemotherapy alone as from radiation alone...

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