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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Preventive Brain Radiation Was Linked to Longer Survival in Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
People with limited-stage small cell lung cancer who got preventive brain radiation lived longer than those who did not.
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A brain scan test may help spot glioma gene changes without surgery
Researchers tested a special brain scan to guess a tumor's gene changes without taking a tissue sample.
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A New Brain Tumor Found 10 Months After Brain Radiation
Doctors report one woman who grew a slow-growing, non-cancerous brain tumor less than a year after she had radiation to her brain.
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One woman's memory and thinking problems tracked for 10 years with meningioma
Doctors followed one woman with meningioma for 10 years, and her thinking problems lasted a long time.
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A computer tool that measures meningioma size on MRI scans
Researchers built a computer program that outlines meningioma tumors on MRI scans on its own, and it worked better on some tumors than others.
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A review of immune therapy for cancer that has spread to the brain
Doctors looked back at 10 years of research on using the immune system to treat brain metastases, and found it helps some people but still has real limits.
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An Overview of Brain Tumors in Children
This is a plain summary of what doctors know about brain tumors in children, not a new treatment.
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Awake brain surgery during pregnancy: a look at the reported cases
Doctors reviewed every published report of pregnant women who had awake brain tumor surgery, and all of them delivered healthy babies.
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Experts agree on five ways to track how surgeons improve at brain tumor surgery
Doctors across Europe agreed on five things to measure as surgeons get better at removing fast growing brain tumors.
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Newer targeted pills linked to longer survival when EGFR lung cancer spreads to the brain
In a look back at past patient records, people who took third-generation EGFR pills lived longer after their lung cancer spread to the brain.
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Prescribing physical exercise to brain tumor patients
This item is about doctors recommending exercise to people with brain tumors.
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A look at brain tumor patients by age at one hospital in Romania
Doctors reviewed 283 adults with brain tumors and found that older patients tended to have more aggressive tumors and got less intensive treatment.
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Gene testing helped identify a rare brain tumor in a child
Doctors used gene testing to correctly name a rare, slow-growing brain tumor in one child.
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A review of Trop-2 drugs for HER2-negative breast cancer
This is a summary of where research stands on a group of breast cancer drugs that aim at a marker called Trop-2.
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A study of second surgery for fast-growing brain tumors
This item looks at what happens when people have surgery a second time for a fast-growing brain tumor, but the details were not provided.
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A review of newer scans and lab tests for finding skull base tumors sooner
Newer scans and fluid tests may spot problems at the base of the skull earlier than standard scans do.
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Health workers describe what helps and what blocks good care for brain tumor patients
Staff who care for people with fast growing brain tumors say care needs better teamwork and clearer communication.
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A large study looks at daily life with brain and spine tumors
Researchers followed 1000 adults with brain or spine tumors to learn what living with these tumors is really like.
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Surgeons removed a rare brain tumor using a small camera through the brain's fluid spaces
Doctors took out a rare tumor deep inside the brain using a thin camera and small tools, and the patient did well.
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PET scans show more of a brain tumor, but wider surgery led to longer survival
A special scan found more tumor than a standard MRI, but people did better when surgeons removed a wider area.