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Innovative device to treat brain cancer shows promise in early studies

New early data showed that an investigational device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields -- called Tumor-Treating Fields -- more than doubled the median overall survival rates in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive type of malignant brain tumor.

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