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Headline Brain Cancer News 
Agenus Announces Initiation of Enrollment in NCI-Sponsored Randomized Trial of Prophage G-200 Vaccine With Avastin in Treatment of Brain Tumors
Study Seeking to Enroll 222 Patients; Largest Vaccine Trial Ever Funded by NCI in...
Following Lifestyle Recommendations Reduces Risk of Cancer Death
People who follow the diet and lifestyle recommendations laid out by the WCRF and the AICR have a 20 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer.
Cancer Deaths on the Decline
Overall cancer death rates are declining and cancer incidence has decreased in men and stabilized in women.
Brain Cancer Tips
Advanced Directives Living Wills Every competent adult has, in most cases, the freedom to accept or refuse...
Caregivers What is Caregiving and Who are Caregivers? Caregivers are individuals who provide...
Women, Fertility and Cancer Women who confront a cancer diagnosis before beginning or completing their families...
Brain Cancer Management
Inspiration, Hope & Resources
Brain Tumor Advocacy Groups There's not a typical brain tumor survivor." The reality is, "brain tumors can affect anyone—both sexes, all races and ethnicities, and any age."
National Brain Tumor Foundation “This is an exciting time in brain tumor research,” says Harriet Patterson, MPH....
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation Jon Albert, founder of the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation shows the...
Brain Cancer Clinical Trials
COGACNS0332 – A groupwide phase III study- Efficacy of Carboplatin Administered Concomitantly with Radiation and Isotretinoin as a Pro-Apoptotic Agent in Other Than average risk medulloblastoma/PNET patients
COGACNS0621 – Cilengitide in Recurrent or Progressive and Refractory Childhood High-Grade Glioma
COGACNS0334 – A Phase III Randomized Trial for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Supratentorial PNET and High Risk Medulloblastoma in Children less than 36 months Old With Intensive Induction Chemotherapy with Methotrexate Followed by Consolidation with Stem Cell Rescue vs. the Same Therapy Without Methotrexate
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