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Delivering Chemo Directly Into Brain Tumors Shows Promise
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
MONDAY, May 4 – Using a catheter to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into a deadly type of brain tumor is showing promise in early clinical trials, researchers report.
Malignant gliomas are difficult to treat using standard chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Only about 3 percent of patients diagnosed with a malignant glioma survive five years or more, according to background information in the study.
With the new method, researchers inserted catheters carrying the chemotherapy drug Topotecan (Hycamtin) directly into the tumors of 16 patients with recurrent malignant gliomas. Read more...
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Chemo Alone Effective in Treating Kids' Brain Tumors
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Oct. 10 – Using chemotherapy alone, and delaying or avoiding radiation altogether, may be effective in treating children with inoperable or progressive low-grade glioma brain tumors, according to a multi-institutional study.
Low-grade glioma is the most common brain tumor in children. If surgery can be performed, the survival rate for patients is 95 percent. But prognosis is worse for children with tumors in locations that prevent surgical removal or with tumors that progress after surgery, according to background information in a news release about the study from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Read more...
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