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Current Treatments For Brain Cancer

1:31  |   Apr 23, 2008  |  Family Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Oncology
Greg Foltz, MD, Director, Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA, discusses current treatments for brain cancer.

References and Resources
Schönekaes K, Mücke R, Panke J, Rama B, Wagner W. Combined radiotherapy and temozolomide in patients with recurrent high grade glioma. Tumori. 2002 Jan-Feb;88(1):28-31.

Guerin C, Olivi A, Weingart JD, Lawson HC, Brem H. Recent advances in brain tumor therapy: local intracerebral drug delivery by polymers. Invest New Drugs. 2004 Jan;22(1):27-37.

Norden AD, Young GS, Setayesh K, et al. Bevacizumab for recurrent malignant gliomas: efficacy, toxicity, and patterns of recurrence. Neurology. 2008 Mar 4;70(10):779-87.

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