Brain Cancer

New Protocol Targets Aggressive Brain Cancer

Published in Drug Week, March 23rd, 2007

After 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, 50-year-old Joseph Wollschlager Jr. felt invincible. Until one day at work when what looked like a seizure led to the diagnosis of a life-threatening brain tumor. The outlook was grim: Survival rates for this type of cancer are usually less than a year.

But in typical Marine Corps style, Wollschlager is fighting all the way. Thanks to a new treatment regimen being tested at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wollschlager is back to work and optimistic about his prognosis.

“There’s nothing in this life that I can’t beat. Nothing will beat me in this life. I believe that wholeheartedly,”...

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Source: Drug Week (2007-03-23)

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