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Article: Cancer cells remain after tumor removal. (research on brain tumors called gliomas)(Special Newsletter Edition: Your Health)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Primary tumors that arise in the brain will appear in 17,200 Americans in 1995 and kill 13,300, the American Cancer Society estimates. The most common are gliomas, which develop from the glial cells that protect and nourish neurons. The most malignant glioma accounts for 30% of all primary brain tumors. Patients rarely live more than two years after a diagnosis of malignant glioma.
Although glioma cells do not metastasize to other parts of the body, they do leave the tumor. So, when a tumor is removed by surgery or radiotherapy, millions of cells already have found their way to other parts of the brain. These cells remain behind, causing death from generalized brain ...