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Guidance for Newly Diagnosed Brain Cancer Patients

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure’s online video library provides information about patient care, clinical trials, and advances in research. We are grateful to the specialists who made time to address questions from patients and their families.



Understanding the role of molecular profiling in your treatment


Concept of personalized medicine


Clinical trials: The phases of experimental therapies and how to find them


Questions and choices: Standard of care treatment vs. alternative experimental therapy


Cancer care is a team effort


ABC2: Creating a network of investigators and collaborators

Learn from the Experts

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure is pleased to offer commentary by four leading cancer physicians and researchers about topics of great interest to brain tumor patients. We are grateful to the specialists who made time to address questions from patients and their families. Simply click on the name of the specialist or on a topic below to watch a video.

Dr. David B. Agus
Scientific advisor to Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, Research Director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center and Director, Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics, Cedars Sinai

Dr. Mitchel S. Berger
Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery, Director, Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California San Francisco

Dr. Paul S. Mischel
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Michael D. Prados
Director of Neuro-oncology, Director of Translational Research Program, University of California San Francisco

Statistics

Brain tumors are:

Observed average relative survival rates for patients diagnosed over the period of 1973-2002 with a primary malignant brain/CNS tumor vs. glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most common primary brain tumors:1

Brain/CNS Tumors Glioblastoma Multiforme
One-year survival rate 51.5% 29.3%
Two-year survival rate 37.3% 8.7%
Five-year survival rate 29.1% 3.3%
Ten-year survival rate 25.3% 2.3%

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  1. Central Brain Tumor Registry of the US (CBTRUS) data, 1998-2002
  2. NCI/PRG, http://prg.nci.nih.gov/brain/pediatrics.html
  3. American Cancer Society 2002


Clinical Trial Resources

Choosing to participate in a clinical trial is an important personal decision. Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research.

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Additional Resources

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