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Brain Tumor Webinar Series continues... These events allow you to ask the experts any questions about brain tumor treatments.
Dr Rahman is the co-principal investigator for a promising vaccine clinical trial https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02465268 She will tell us the theory behind the vaccine and why she thinks it will help, as well as the results of an earlier trial.. This is a simple shot in the skin - not into the brain.
Dr Schulder is the director of the Brain Tumor Center at Northwell Health's Neuroscience Institute and they recently acquired the new version of the Gamma Knife. Dr. Schulder is past president of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and is vice president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He is one of the rare neurosurgeons who can and does treat brain tumors both with surgery and / or radiation.
Returning to work after multimodal treatment in glioblastoma patients This should be a key endpoint for clinical trials for glioblastomas. In this study, only 18% of the patients went back to work after surgery, radiation and Temodar. Out of these who did go back to work, most were not able to resume full time work. Only about 8 out of the 125 patients were able to return to work full time. Some of the new experimental treatments such as DCVAX and Tocagen not only had some long term survivors, but had people working full time in high level jobs 5+ years after diagnosis. That is really what we want to see, even more than merely "surviving".
