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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7755

10 July 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/research
Project financed by the EU allows brain tumours to be operated on without opening the skull

Brussels, 10/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has helped in a major breakthrough in operating techniques on cancers and tumours of the brain, which has already allowed patients to be cured in Belgium without using a knife. In announcing this news, the spokesperson for Philippe Busquin, Research Commissioner, welcomed the result of a research project cofunded by the Community executive. This advanced surgical technique combines the use of an instrument called "Gamma Knife"...

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