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heblaj01 · 05-09-2006, 11:31 AM

Cancer Therapy Based On Anatomical Location May Soon Be Obsolete

See article: http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7026.html

Researchers & clinicians have already stated in the past that tumour "behaviour" is more important than tumour size (especially if size is stable or increasing slowly). Now it seems that tumour location may not be important or will become a less important factor in selecting treatment (with some exceptions not alluded to in the article such as brain cancer where the blood-brain barrier is an obstacle to the penetration of some drugs )

05-09-2006, 11:31 AM	#1
heblaj01 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 543	Cancer location may soon become unimportant Cancer Therapy Based On Anatomical Location May Soon Be Obsolete See article: http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7026.html Researchers & clinicians have already stated in the past that tumour "behaviour" is more important than tumour size (especially if size is stable or increasing slowly). Now it seems that tumour location may not be important or will become a less important factor in selecting treatment (with some exceptions not alluded to in the article such as brain cancer where the blood-brain barrier is an obstacle to the penetration of some drugs ) Last edited by heblaj01; 05-09-2006 at 11:34 AM.. Reason: Character size reduction