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Article: Age-related outcomes in patients with brain tumors linked to thymic cells.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- December 8, 2003
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2003 DEC 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chronological age at time of diagnosis has long been associated with a patient's prognosis and length of survival in the battle against brain tumors and other cancers. Older patients typically respond less favorably to treatment and have comparatively poorer outcomes than their younger counterparts.
Physicians and researchers who treat and study cancers, such as a type of incurable malignant brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), describe this as "age-dependent outcome." Now researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have directly linked this age factor to immune system cells recently ...