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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Eye pathway tumors did not add to thinking problems in children with NF1
Children with NF1 had similar thinking skills whether or not they had a tumor on the eye pathway.
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Eye scans found more nerve damage with one type of brain tumor
Tumors sitting right on top of the pituitary area were linked to more vision problems, even though they were smaller.
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A teaching case about medulloblastoma
This is a teaching article about medulloblastoma, but no summary text was shared, so there is nothing to report yet.
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A computer program learns to sort brain tumor types on MRI scans
Researchers taught a computer to tell brain tumor types apart on scans, but it is not ready for use in patient care.
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A review of immune drug trials in glioblastoma
This paper looks at where trials of immune checkpoint drugs for glioblastoma stand now.
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Limiting fluids after pituitary tumor surgery led to fewer cases of low blood sodium
People who were kept on less fluid after surgery had fewer problems with low blood sodium.
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A gentle drug plan kept one man's brain tumor steady for 3 months
An 85-year-old man who was too frail for standard treatment stayed stable on two low-dose medicines.
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Stress may affect how well immune treatments work
Doctors are asking if heavy stress makes immune cancer drugs work less well.
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Tumor size and position, not radiation dose, linked to fluid buildup in the brain
In a small look back at 31 patients, fluid buildup in the brain was tied to the tumor's size and location, not to the radiation dose.
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Tumor type may change when radiation helps in babies with medulloblastoma
In this study, the type of tumor a young child had seemed to change whether radiation helped, and when.
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A simple tool to predict fluid buildup in the brain after tumor surgery
Doctors built a computer tool that uses three facts known before surgery to estimate who might get fluid buildup in the brain afterward.
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Where glioblastoma tumors tend to come back after treatment
In most reported cases, glioblastoma came back in or near the same spot that was treated.
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Where people live and the brain tumor care they get
At one large cancer center, people from tougher neighborhoods lived about as long, but they got less surgery and fewer clinical trials.
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People with kidney cancer that spread to the brain are living longer than in past years
Records from 929 patients show survival time has gone up as newer drugs came into use.
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Surgeons removed part of a large ear nerve tumor and placed a cochlear implant in the same operation
One woman had a large tumor partly removed and got a hearing implant during the same surgery, and she could hear better afterward.
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A spine tumor that spread to the lungs ten years later
In rare cases, a slow growing spine tumor can show up outside the nervous system years later.
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MRI scans alone did not show how packed glioma tumors were
A common way of using MRI to guess how crowded tumor cells are did not match what the tissue actually showed.
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A look at brain lymphoma and newer ways to test and treat it
Doctors are learning more about a rare cancer that starts in the brain.
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A Rare Brain Tumor in a Teen Looked Like Cancer
A teen's brain tumor looked like cancer on scans, but it was not.
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One patient whose lung cancer spread to the brain and its lining
Doctors report on one person whose lung cancer spread to the brain in two ways at once.