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Health
Ella Pickover

Radiotherapy after surgery ‘reduces risk of recurrence of certain brain cancers’

Andy Tudor was diagnosed with an atypical meningioma (Handout/PA) -

Giving certain brain tumour patients radiotherapy after surgery can halve the risk of their cancer returning, a new study suggests.

Atypical meningioma is a type of brain tumour that grows back nearly 50% of the time within five years of surgery.

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