Cancer trends: glioblastoma multiforme and radiation therapy.
After a century of experience with brain tumors, oncologists today can offer the patient with glioblastoma multiforme only limited survival time with the best treatments known today. Radiation therapy has prolonged survival, though not to significant degree.
D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies