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.
1061 item(s). Early-stage animal and lab research is hidden. Tick the box above to include it.
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PET scan computer tools may help tell tumor growth from treatment changes
Researchers looked at whether computer analysis of PET scans can tell if a glioma is growing back or just changing from treatment.
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A review of gene therapy research for glioblastoma
Scientists are testing ways to deliver genes into brain tumors, but this work is still mostly in research stages.
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A rare brain tumor found with a DNA test after a leukemia history
Doctors used a special DNA test to name a rare brain tumor in one young patient when the usual lab tests could not.
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A certain immune cell pattern is linked to longer survival in glioblastoma
In this study, people whose brain tumors had more of one kind of immune cell lived longer.
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Why Choroid Plexus Tumors Are Hard to Diagnose
Doctors reviewed how these rare brain tumors are told apart, because getting the right diagnosis can be tricky.
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People with a slow growing lymphoma in the brain or spine are living longer
In this study, most people with this rare cancer were still alive five years after diagnosis.
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Small errors in radiation equipment can change the dose to brain tumors
A study checked how small mistakes in radiation equipment and patient position change the dose that reaches brain tumors.
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Experts review the limits of AI in reading brain tumor tissue
AI tools are not yet ready to study tissue from cancer that has spread to the brain.
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A glowing dye used during surgery for a nerve tumor near the ear
Doctors looked back at 55 surgeries where a dye was used to help the surgeon see the tumor, and the dye looked safe.
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About one in six people get new hormone problems after pituitary tumor surgery
In a review of past studies, most people did not get a new hormone problem after surgery for a pituitary tumor, but about one in six did.
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Brain tumor survival at one hospital in Morocco
People who got the full course of treatment lived longer than those who did not.
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Testing tumor tissue during surgery let doctors remove less of a boy's brain tumor
Doctors checked the tumor under a microscope during the operation, so they only had to take out a small part of it.
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Filtering bevacizumab out of the blood before surgery: four patient reports
Doctors used a blood filtering treatment to clear the drug bevacizumab before surgery, and all four patients healed without bleeding problems.
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Study Finds Three Patterns of Anxiety and Low Mood in People With Pituitary Tumors
People with pituitary tumors do not all feel the same way, and this study sorted their feelings into three groups.
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Doctors share what went wrong when planning brain radiation with MRI scans alone
A hospital team tried planning brain radiation using only MRI scans, and they wrote down the problems they ran into.
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A 13-Year Look at Rare Brain Lymphomas
Doctors reviewed 17 rare cases of lymphoma in the brain to help spot them sooner.
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Older drugs are being studied to help glioblastoma chemotherapy work better
Researchers are looking at drugs already used for other health problems to see if they can help the standard glioblastoma chemotherapy do its job.
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A brain tumor in an adult woman was first thought to be lymphoma
This is a report about one adult woman whose brain tumor was first mistaken for a different kind of cancer.
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A different brain tumor appeared 11 years after surgery
A man had a pineal brain tumor fully removed, and eleven years later a different kind of tumor grew in the same place.
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Brain tumors with an IDH gene change act differently, large records study finds
People whose tumor had a change in a gene called IDH lived longer than people whose tumor did not.