Research updates
New brain tumor research and news, in plain language. The marks on each item show how far along the evidence is. More marks mean it has been tested more.
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A look at antipsychotic drugs as possible cancer treatments
Some drugs made for mental illness may also act on cancer cells, but this is still early science.
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Brain Scans May Help Show Who Does Poorly After Treatment
Doctors tested whether two kinds of brain scans can point out who is likely to do worse after treatment.
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A brain scan that looked like spread cancer was something else
A brain scan looked like cancer had spread, but it was not.
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A Rare Case of Testicle Cancer That Spread to the Heart, Brain, and Lungs
Doctors describe one man whose rare cancer spread to his heart, and how a team treated him.
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CAR-T Cell Therapy for Lymphoma That Starts in the Brain: A Review of Past Studies
Researchers looked at many small studies of a cell therapy for a rare brain cancer and found it often helped for a while.
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An overview of brain tumors with a BRAF gene change in children and adults
This paper looks at one type of brain tumor linked to a gene change called BRAF.
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A look at research on robots used in brain tumor surgery
Researchers counted and sorted studies about robots that help with brain tumor surgery.
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A tumor marker that guides chemo use mostly stays the same when glioma comes back
For most people whose glioma came back, a key tumor test result did not change.
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A review looks at blood and fluid tests for glioblastoma
Experts looked at whether simple fluid tests could one day help track glioblastoma without surgery.
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Brain Scans May Help Show Which Children With a Certain Brain Tumor Face Higher Risk
Researchers used a computer to study MRI brain scans and sort children with a serious brain tumor into higher and lower risk groups.
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When pituitary tumor surgery finds no tumor in the tissue
Sometimes surgery for a pituitary tumor removes tissue that shows no tumor at all.
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Most brain tumor samples at one Jordan hospital never got the key lab tests
At one hospital in Jordan, almost no brain tumor samples got the gene tests that doctors now need to name the tumor.
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A score may show who is helped by one brain tumor drug
Doctors built a score to tell who might be helped by a certain drug.
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MRI clues may help tell two brain tumors apart
Two measures from an MRI scan helped doctors tell brain lymphoma from a fast-growing glioma.
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Brain radiation given sooner worked better with osimertinib
People who got focused brain radiation soon after starting osimertinib went longer before their brain tumors grew.
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A New Drug Tested in Five People With Brain Lymphoma
Doctors tried a new drug in five people with lymphoma in the brain.
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A new online tool asks brain tumor patients how they are doing
A new online sign-up lets brain tumor patients report how they feel in daily life.
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Do immune drugs for cancer work as well for women as for men?
A large review found these immune drugs helped women live longer, but men seemed to gain a bit more.
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Lung cancer gene type and the chance of spread to the brain
With a newer lung cancer drug, two common gene types had a similar chance of spreading to the brain.
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A computer tool helped name hard-to-sort brain tumors
A computer tool that reads marks on tumor DNA named many brain tumors that another tool could not.