Surgery may add months or years of survival for adults with high-grade gliomas

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For adult patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas, surgically removing the entire tumor may add many months or potentially years of survival beyond that offered by radiation and chemotherapy, according to results of a medical records study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

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