December 3, 2008 – 8:08 pm
A new Mayo Clinic 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.
“This study is exciting because it shows how well glioma patients can [...]
By Elizabeth Rice
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Posted in Cancer, Neurology, Research
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Tagged brain tumor, Cancer, Mayo Clinic, Neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, radiation therapy, Research, tumor
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December 3, 2008 – 4:43 pm
Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, do not interfere with a commonly used medication to treat lymphomas, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Francisco. In fact, statins may slow the progression of certain types of lymphoma.
The study focused on [...]
