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More than 5-year survival with glioblastoma multiform. Report of a case on a teen-ager young boy

Kourtopoulos Harry, MD, PhD and Drosos Christos MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Mediterraneo Hospital, Glyfada, Greece.

An unusual case of a 17 year old boy who at age οί six was diagnosed and curcd for Hodgkin diseased and at age of 12 was diagnosed glioblastoma. He has successfully survived longer than 5 years after repeated surgical removal, radiotherapy and chemotherapy and removal of a postradiation sarcoma. Analysis of the case. Keywords: Hodgkin disease, glioblastoma multiform, surgery, irradiation, chemotherapy, post radiation sarcoma.