A new study by Alissa Thomas, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences and medicine, and colleagues published in BMC Health Services Research finds that patients diagnosed and treated for glioblastoma at the 91°µÍøÊÓƵ Medical Center had equal survival and treatment outcomes regardless of whether they were from urban or rural areas. This work suggests that under the right conditions, rural patients can do as well as their urban counterparts, even with rare, aggressive cancers like glioblastoma.
A UVM Cancer Center member and division chief for neuro-oncology, Thomas is a master trialist who runs nearly a dozen interventional clinical trials focused on brain cancer.