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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1634 item(s). Early-stage animal and lab research is hidden. Tick the box above to include 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.
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Adding a second drug did not help when glioblastoma came back
Adding procarbazine to lomustine did not help people live longer.
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One adult's hard search for a brain tumor trial that fits
This item is about an adult who did not fit the rules for brain tumor trials.
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Gentle brain stimulation and thinking problems during whole brain radiation
A small study found that gentle brain stimulation helped memory and focus during whole brain radiation.
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A new kind of MRI scan may show how brain tumors use fuel
Doctors are testing a scan that shows how a brain tumor uses fuel.
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Two surgery routes for a hearing nerve tumor, and what each one costs
Surgeons compared the two main ways to reach a hearing nerve tumor, and each way came with a different trade off.
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Using more surgery tools may help some grade 4 glioma patients live longer
Patients lived longer when surgeons used several special tools, but only when the tumor sat in a brain area that controls things like speech or movement.
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A scan check after radiation may predict how glioblastoma will go
Doctors looked at brain scans taken after radiation and chemo, and found the scans gave a better picture of how patients were likely to do.
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A look back at 210 people with a midline brain tumor
Doctors reviewed 210 past cases of a fast growing brain tumor to see what affected how long people lived.
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A brain metastasis came back along the path of a drain tube
In one patient, cancer grew back along the track where a small tube had been placed to drain a fluid-filled brain tumor.
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A rare blood vessel problem after brain tumor surgery in a child
Doctors describe one child who died from a rare narrowing of brain arteries days after surgery for a craniopharyngioma.
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Tumors in the vision part of the brain: what past studies show
Researchers pulled together past studies on brain tumors in the area that handles sight, to see how they show up and how patients did.
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Early safety study of berubicin in people whose brain tumors came back
A first study in people tested a new drug for brain tumors that returned, mainly to find a safe dose.