Sunnyvale, Calif. first-grader Isabelle Wagner is thriving five years after receiving a lifesaving surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital to remove a malignant golf-ball sized tumor from the base of her brain. In this KGO-TV segment, Paul Fisher, MD, chief of neurology at the hospital, explains how the procedure used to treat Wagner can minimize the long-term effects that often come with treating cancer in children:
The thing that was different about her treatment was that she received a novel treatment protocol where she got less radiation, where only the back part of her brain was radiated, and not the whole brain and spine, and chemotherapy was swapped in.
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