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Clinical Trial Results

Summaries of Newsworthy Clinical Trial Results

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Search for Clinical Trials 1
NCI's PDQ® registry of cancer clinical trials.

Brain Tumor Home Page 2
NCI's gateway for information about brain tumors.
Brain Cancer Trial Results
6.  Silenced Gene May Make Temozolomide More Effective for Some Brain Cancer Patients 3
(Posted: 03/28/2005) - Researchers report in the March 10, 2005, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that most glioblastoma patients in a 2004 study who survived longer on temozolomide had tumors in which a particular gene was turned off.

7.  Young Children with Medulloblastoma May Be Able to Avoid Post-Surgery Radiotherapy 4
(Posted: 03/21/2005) - Children younger than three with a kind of brain cancer called medulloblastoma may be effectively treated with chemotherapy alone after surgery, according to a report released by the New England Journal of Medicine on March 10, 2005.
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Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/brain
3http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/glioblastoma0305
4http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/childhood-medulloblastoma0305
5http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/brain?keyword=brain&page=1