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Brain Cancer: Evolving Standard of Care

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Channel: Inside Science · 2018 · Science & Technology

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(Inside Science) – An interview with Steven Kalkanis at the Henry Ford Health System.
What is the current standard of care for brain cancer treatment?
“Our current standard of care is to take out as much of the tumor as is safe, a. And we do this through a variety of imaging techniques and surgical techniques. But that's not enough. There are microscopic cells that are left behind that have sort of fingerlike projections in the brain. So we need something else besides the surgery to make sure that these tumors don't recur. And so, the standard right now is to do surgery. And then that's followed by a pretty aggressive regimen of radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

“And right now, we have some basic drugs that have been around for a while that are given to all patients that have a certain type of malignant brain tumor. The wonderful, hopeful advance is that we have the ability to understand that newer drugs might be more effective for these patients, or perhaps an injection of a virus that starts dividing and selectively kills these cancer cells, or a whole other upregulating of the immune pathway so that the body's own immune system can be recruited to fight cancer along with these agents. 

“We can put all of this together now to come up with a personalized treatment plan. And so, we very quickly are moving from that standard of care to really a personalized, customized approach for each individual patient.”

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