Mapping brain cancer to find best treatment

November 30, 2008 By Sandi Doughton

There's never a good time to have brain cancer. Still, Karl DuBose tries to look on the bright side. "It's weird to say, but today - and here in Seattle - might be the best time and place to get this disease," said the 45-year-old Everett, Wash., man, who was slammed with the diagnosis last summer.

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