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 computer tool uses MRI scans to sort brain tumor risk
Researchers built a computer tool that reads MRI scans to help guess who faces higher risk.
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A look at using computers to combine brain tumor test results
Scans, tissue tests, and records are often read one at a time, not together.
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A contest to teach computers to outline ear tumors on MRI scans
Researchers ran a contest to build computer tools that spot this tumor on MRI scans.
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Tumor Shape on MRI May Help Plan Spine Tumor Surgery
The shape of a spine tumor on an MRI scan may help doctors plan surgery.
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Bleeding inside glioblastoma tumors and how patients did
Bleeding inside the tumor did not change how long people lived in this study.
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A lung cancer spread near the skull base looked like a common brain tumor
A tumor that looked like one common type turned out to be lung cancer that had spread.
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Computer tools that try to predict how patients do after vestibular schwannoma surgery
Computer tools that predict surgery results look promising, but they are not ready for real care yet.
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MRI scans may show how fast a meningioma is growing
A computer program read brain scans to guess how fast a tumor was growing, before surgery.
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Stopping targeted melanoma drugs after the cancer cleared
In a small hospital review, most people who stopped their melanoma drugs after the cancer cleared stayed cancer free.
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Blood and bone marrow cancers linked to higher brain tumor risk
People with two kinds of blood and bone marrow cancer may face a higher risk of a brain tumor.
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Can an MRI Scan Without Dye Tell Tumor Regrowth From Treatment Changes?
A brain scan that needs no injected dye did about as well as the usual dye scan at spotting high-grade glioma coming back.
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A Computer Program Tries to Read Breast Cancer Spread to the Brain From MRI Scans
Researchers built an early computer tool that guesses details about a tumor from brain scans, but it is not ready for patients.
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A new way to set the pulse strength for brain mapping
Doctors tested a new way to set up a brain scan, and it worked as well as the usual way.
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Brain scans may point to a protein tied to shorter survival
Researchers used MRI scans to estimate a protein level inside brain tumors that came from lung cancer.
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US deaths from cancer that spread to the brain are rising again
These deaths dropped for years, but they have gone back up since the mid-2010s.
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Why immune treatments have not worked well for glioma
Experts say the immune system gets blocked at several points in glioma, not just one.
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Experts set a plan for trials in rare childhood brain tumors
A group of experts agreed on a plan to run more trials for rare childhood brain tumors.
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How melanoma spreads to the brain, and ideas for new ways to treat it
Experts looked at what helps melanoma grow in the brain, hoping to find new ways to fight it.
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A rare spine tumor found in an unusual spot in the lower back
Doctors report one man whose rare spine tumor was removed in full, with his nerves kept working.
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Review says glioma research should look at more than the tumor
This paper says glioma research should also study what people are exposed to in daily life.