Clinician's Roundtable Malignant Glioma Research Update
May 27, 2008
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Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD
Guest: Mitchel Berger, MD
Malignant Glioma: A diagnosis your patient wants do not want to receive. As their primary physician what more can you tell your patient? What does the latest research indicate about the pathobiology of Gliomas? In this segment our guest Dr. Mitchel Berger, Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, talks with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the latest Glioma research. They discuss the genetic advances that may lead to new treatments including a possible vaccination currently being developed that could one day replace mainstay treatments including radiation and chemotherapy.
Guest: Mitchel Berger, MD
Malignant Glioma: A diagnosis your patient wants do not want to receive. As their primary physician what more can you tell your patient? What does the latest research indicate about the pathobiology of Gliomas? In this segment our guest Dr. Mitchel Berger, Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, talks with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the latest Glioma research. They discuss the genetic advances that may lead to new treatments including a possible vaccination currently being developed that could one day replace mainstay treatments including radiation and chemotherapy.