Gary Carter Has Aggressive Brain Cancer - NY Times

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Gary Carter was diagnosed on Tuesday as having glioblastoma, an aggressive, fast-moving brain cancer that that will be treated with radiation and chemotherapy, but not with surgery, according to a statement from the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Cancer Center at Duke University Medical Center, where biopsies of the cancer were tested.

Carter’s doctors, Henry S. Friedman and Allan Friedman, the co-deputy directors of the Tisch Center, said in a statement that surgery is “not a good option given the location of the tumor.” They said that Carter would return home to Florida “to begin the next phase of his treatment” and that his age, 57, and “strong physical condition and fighting spirit will be to his advantage as the treatment commences.”

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Gary Carter Has Aggressive Brain Cancer - NY Times
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