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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Testing zamtocabtagene autoleucel in people with B cell lymphoma that came back or did not respond
This study is testing a treatment called zamtocabtagene autoleucel in people whose B cell lymphoma came back or did not get better with earlier treatment.
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A review of the immune cells found inside glioblastoma tumors
Researchers looked at what we know about the immune cells that get inside brain tumors, and how that knowledge might lead to new treatments.
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A look at 198 children with the brain tumor meningioma
Most children in this study were still alive many years after treatment for a brain tumor called meningioma.
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A Brain Mapping Test May Show Who Is at Risk of Movement Problems
A painless magnetic brain test before surgery may help doctors see which glioma patients are more likely to have trouble moving.
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Smoking before pituitary tumor surgery was linked to more problems afterward
People who smoked before pituitary tumor surgery had more problems after it than people who did not smoke.
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Awake and asleep brain mapping gave similar results in glioma surgery
Two ways of protecting movement during brain tumor surgery led to similar results for patients.
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A rare tumor at the back of the brain, removed with surgery
Doctors found a rare kind of tumor at the back of one woman's brain, and surgery took all of it out.
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A blood test gave a falsely low reading in a woman with a giant pituitary tumor
A large pituitary tumor can trick a hormone blood test into reading much lower than the truth, and a repeat test done a different way found the real level.
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A review of how doctors prepare patients with vestibular schwannoma for surgery
This is a summary of current practice for checking and preparing patients with a vestibular schwannoma before surgery.
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A lung cancer drug also worked on tumors that had spread to the brain
In a large study of people with ROS1 lung cancer, the drug crizotinib shrank tumors, including tumors in the brain.
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A rare case where lung cancer spread into a kidney tumor but not a brain tumor
In one man, lung cancer spread into a tumor in his kidney, but it did not spread into the brain tumor he already had.
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A trial of chemotherapy given into the fluid around the brain
Doctors tested a chemotherapy drug given straight into the fluid around the brain and spine, but no results are shown here.
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A higher radiation dose from implanted seeds was linked to longer survival when glioblastoma came back
In a look back at 62 people whose glioblastoma returned, those given a higher radiation dose from tiny implanted seeds lived longer.
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Doctors propose a new way to think about pressure in a child's growing skull
This is a new idea about how a child's skull and brain grow together, not a new treatment.
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A meningioma that grew outside the skull and looked like another tumor
Doctors describe one woman whose slow growing brain covering tumor spread into the muscle and bone near her temple, and how they found out what it really was.
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A review of dendritic cell vaccines for blood cancers, and what it may teach us about brain tumors
Researchers looked back at years of work on vaccines that train the immune system to attack cancer cells, and they compared it to what is known in brain tumors.
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MRI scans may show gene changes in glioma without surgery
Special MRI scans might tell doctors about certain gene changes in a brain tumor, without needing a tissue sample.
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A rare brain tumor first mistaken for glioblastoma
A woman's brain tumor looked like an aggressive glioblastoma on scans, but tests on the tissue showed it was a different, slower growing tumor.
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A protein in tumor tissue may help predict how glioblastoma will go
A common lab stain, a routine scan, and a person's age together may give a better picture of how a glioblastoma will behave.
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One man's brain tumors stayed under control for more than five years
Doctors report on one man whose lung cancer spread to his brain, and stayed under control for more than five years.