LI patient, doctors hopeful on brain cancer vaccine
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Dr. Jai Grewal, a neuro-oncologist and co-director of the Long Island Brain Tumor Center, and Dr. Lee Tessler, a neurosurgeon. review images of the brain. (Sept. 27, 2012)
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The 54-year-old Long Island patient is upbeat and hopeful, confident that a vaccination she received a few months ago has set her on the path to long-lasting health.
Yet, the shot in the arm was unlike an immunization against measles or the flu. Her vaccine is against the rebound of the deadliest form of brain cancer: glioblastoma.
Withholding her name out of fear of recriminations in...
