John McCain Has Died. For Brain Cancers Like His, ‘Research Is Our Only Hope’

August 27, 2018

(STAT News) – About 14,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most common form of adult brain cancer, every year. It will kill all but 15 percent within five years. Barely half live 18 months. Of two dozen experimental drugs tested in clinical trials for newly diagnosed glioblastoma in the last decade, zero improved survival. The last drug to do so, by an average of about two months, was temozolomide, approved in 2005. The newest treatment, based on electrical fields, bought patients an average of five more months.