Article: Statistics tell a pretty grim tale

LAURAN NEERGAARD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-21-2008

Statistics tell a pretty grim tale -- Glioma an aggressive cancer
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 05-21-2008, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions

WASHINGTON — A malignant glioma — the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — is the worst kind of brain cancer.

Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim — few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.

Who lasts longer — and some do — depends on exactly what form of glioma someone has, whether surgeons can cut most of it out, age and some ...

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