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A leading brain injury specialist has claimed that more people survive from serious brain injuries than ever before.

Professor David Menon of the Neurological Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge believes that many people who would have died in the past are now recovering well from the likes of traumatic brain injury, the Daily Telegraph reports.

"Twenty or 30 years ago, these people would not have survived," claims Professor Menon.

"But neurointensive care is not just about survival, it's about the quality of survival."

The newspaper also reports that figures released in 2002, five years after the centre opened, showed a 20 per cent increase in patients making a complete or nearly complete recovery.

Professor Menon added that within the next ten years, doctors such as him will be able to use drug treatments and stem cell therapies to treat brain injuries.

There has been a raft of recent research in the field of stem cell technology, including a new study by a team at Baylor College of Medicine in the US that isolated the role of Ronin protein in regulating stem cell growth.

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