Dr. Andrew Sloan: McCain’s Brain Tumor the ‘Most Malignant of All Primary Brain Tumors’

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SLOAN: "GBM is the most common and unfortunately the most malignant of all primary brain tumors and is considered a grade four tumor. Survival is somewhere between 14 and 15 months on average. That said, you know, people are living longer and longer as they get more and more aggressive treatment many times. People with a fighting attitude such as Senator McCain tend to do better and there is, in addition to the standard treatment which is surgery as well as radiation chemotherapy, people are also doing experimental treatments with immunotherapy, tumor vaccines. There is an electrical device that seems to slow the division of remaining tumor. And all these seem to be helpful. The biggest prognostic indicator that the physicians can control is extensive reception."