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The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 12, 1st Quarter 1997

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The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

E Valstar, MD, MSc

Nutritional Support and Prognosis of Patients with Astrocytoma Grades Three and Four: A Prospective Study

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Seventeen patients with mostly inoperable astrocytoma grade 3 or 4, received nutritional therapy and were compared to three groups of patients, being younger and more exposed to operation and irradiation. In spite of the higher abundance of negative prognostic factors, median survival of the nutritionally treated group ivas 18 months and ten days. After one year there were significantly more patients alive in this group, compared with the other three groups. This was a prospective research


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