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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Gene Patterns From Many Cancers May Help Predict Radiation Results
Scientists used gene data from many cancers to guess who might get worse after radiation.
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Targeted drugs for children with a BRAF gene change in a slow growing brain tumor
Drugs aimed at one gene change shrank tumors in some children, but side effects were common.
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Lab Work on Immune Treatments for DMG Brain Tumors
Better lab models are helping scientists test immune treatments for a hard brain tumor.
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Where a brain tumor sits may matter more than how big it is
Brain scans hint that tumor location may say more about survival than tumor size.
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Right side brain tumors can affect more than movement
Tumors in the right side of the brain often change thinking, language, and vision, not just movement.
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Scalp tissue died after blood vessels were blocked before brain tumor surgery
One man lost the skin on the back of his head after doctors blocked scalp blood vessels ahead of tumor surgery, and surgeons were able to repair it.
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A rare fluid filled meningioma that looked like an aggressive brain tumor
A brain mass that looked like an aggressive tumor on scans turned out to be a slow growing, non cancerous one.
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A brain tumor grew, then shrank on its own over about 17 years
Doctors watched one woman's brain tumor grow and then get smaller on its own.
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Changing where ECT electrodes go helped one woman with schizophrenia
One woman stopped responding to her brain stimulation treatment, and moving the electrodes to a different spot made it work again.
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Breast cancer that spread to a rare spot deep in the brain
Doctors report on one woman whose breast cancer spread to a small gland deep in her brain.
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A computer tool that counts growing tumor cells may help predict if a meningioma comes back
A computer program that counts fast growing cells in tumor tissue may help show which grade 2 meningiomas are more likely to come back soon after surgery.
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Starting Tumor Treating Fields earlier looks safe in a small first study
Twenty people with a new glioblastoma started a wearable device before radiation, and no one had the serious side effect the study was watching for.
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Hobbies and free-time activities may help thinking after brain tumor surgery
People who had been more active in their free time did better on thinking tests after brain tumor surgery.
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A review of dendritic cell vaccines for glioblastoma
Researchers pooled results from earlier studies and found that a vaccine made from a patient's own immune cells was linked to longer survival in glioblastoma.
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A rare cancer that spread to the brain shrank after chemotherapy in one man
One 61-year-old man with a rare cancer that had spread to his brain, lungs and liver got better after standard chemotherapy.
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A spinal fluid test found a brain tumor that a large brain bleed had hidden
One man's brain tumor was missed because a big bleed covered it on scans, and a simple spinal fluid test finally found it.
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Eye scans show a thinner blood vessel layer in children treated for craniopharyngioma
Children who had surgery for this brain tumor had a thinner blood vessel layer at the back of the eye than healthy children.
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Gene changes in blood cells linked to higher cancer risk
A common gene change in blood cells was tied to a higher risk of several cancers, including brain cancer.
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A Child Lost the Ability to Speak After Brain Surgery, Then Slowly Recovered
A 10 year old stopped speaking after brain surgery, and speech slowly came back after doctors started a medicine.
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Computer measures of brain MRI scans were not steady over time
A small study found that computer measures taken from MRI scans shift a lot from scan to scan.