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Adjuvant chemotherapy can improve overall survival in patients with high-risk, low-grade glioma – News-Medical.net
A practice-changing study, NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-RTOG 9802, has demonstrated, for the first time, a survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in certain subgroups of patients with high-risk, low-grade g…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 1 2020
A practice-changing study, NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-RTOG 9802, has demonstrated, for the first time, a survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in certain subgroups of patients with high-risk, low-grade glioma (WHO classification: LGG, grade II), a type of brain tumor that originates from glial cells.
The study results, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, sought to d…
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