Primary Recipient

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Amount

$74,000.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Every year as many as 200,000 patients receive whole brain irradiation (WBI). Most of these patients are treated not for primary brain tumors, but for brain metastases from melanomas, breast cancer or lung cancer that increase in middle age. As patient su