Using radiation on the entire brain to prevent new tumors from forming in patients whose cancer has spread to the brain can have a devastating effect on their ability to think and remember, compared with more targeted treatment, new findings show. Brian Michael Alexander, assistant professor of radiation oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is quoted.
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