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Article: Do cancer stem cells exist? Scientists looking at brain tumors seek treatments
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2009
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More than 300 researchers in an auditorium stared at the dark MRI
image of a woman's brain. They could see along one edge of the skull
a small white patch.
"This is not a big tumor," explained John S. Kuo, neurosurgeon
and director of the comprehensive brain tumor program at the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
A second image: the dark oval of a man's brain, this time
dominated by a large white cloud.
"So how much brain can you really take out?" Kuo asked.
He operated on both patients. Six months after surgery, the small
tumor roared back. The woman died within a year.
As for the man with the much larger brain tumor, "he's still here
after 18 months," Kuo said.
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