A new drug offers a rare option for brain cancer treatment — and inspires hopes for more

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When Rachel Guberman found out she had brain cancer, she did so much reading and Googling about the disease that she joked she had reached the end of the internet. 

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But she avoided digging into one particular subject: what she might have to endure with chemotherapy and radiation.

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