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Brain Tumor Radiation Resistance Defeated

Malignant Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy Alone Is Just As Effective As Radiation – A recent study in Germany has found that there is no survival advantage of doing chemotherapy versus radiation following surgical resection of the tumor.  This has important implications in weighing the side effects of choosing one treatment over the other.

MagForce Successfully Completes Final Clinical Trials for Nano-Cancer Therapy - Clinical trials have just concluded involving patients who have experienced recurrent glioblastoma.  The group who received Nano-cancer treatment, which uses magnetic nanoparticles to treat tumors, had a survival time that was more than double of the patients who only received traditional standard of care (surgery, chemo, radiation).