Best Treatments For Long-term Survival In Brain Tumor Patients Identified
Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 20:35
in Health & Medicine
A new study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy.
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