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M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment

or to protect the brain to avoid them. They are also looking at potential genetic reasons why some brain tumor patients develop more severe neurocognitive symptoms than others, to allow treatment modfications for those that may be at risk.

Until a decade ago, the focus in cancer was to treat and cure the disease. Now we understand that quality-of-life issues are a part of cancer treatment, Meyers says.

"Our overriding goal is to help people be as independent and as high-functioning as possible before and after treatment," she says.


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Contact: Nancy Jensen
nwjensen@mdanderson.org
713-794-1584
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
9-May-2006


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