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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Breast surgery linked to longer survival in advanced breast cancer
Women who had surgery on the main breast tumor lived longer, but this study cannot prove surgery was the reason.
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How radiation dose worked for brain tumors from lung cancer
Doctors looked back at past patient records to learn which radiation dose worked best.
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Tumor treating fields with chemo linked to longer survival in a China study
People who used tumor treating fields along with their chemo lived longer in this study.
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Doctors suggest a step-by-step way to spot a rare cancer in the brain's lining
A rare cancer can grow in the lining around the brain, and doctors say it is easy to mistake for something else.
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Tumor cells found in the blood of people with glioblastoma
Researchers found brain tumor cells floating in the blood, and that may one day lead to a blood test for glioblastoma.
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Computer models show early promise at predicting when a high-grade glioma will come back
Researchers looked at studies that used computer programs to guess if a high-grade glioma would return, and the programs were right much of the time.
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Three Meningioma Cases With a BAP1 Gene Change
Doctors describe three people whose meningioma had a change in a gene called BAP1, and each person did very differently.
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A suggested MRI scan schedule after surgery for skull base meningiomas
This study offers a plan for how often to get MRI scans after surgery for this kind of tumor.
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Prolactin blood tests may not clearly tell two pituitary tumor types apart
A blood test used to sort out two kinds of pituitary tumors misses the mark for many people.
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Grade 2 and grade 3 IDH-wildtype gliomas had very different outcomes
In a look back at 134 adults, people with grade 2 tumors lived much longer than people with grade 3 tumors.
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A review of the brain's waste clearing system in brain tumors and head injury
Researchers looked back at past studies and found that brain tumors seem to slow down the brain's built in system for washing out waste.
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A rare gene change found in a boy with an optic nerve tumor
Doctors found a rare inherited gene change in a boy who had a tumor on his optic nerve pathway.
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What treatment people got after glioblastoma came back
This study looked at what doctors actually gave people after a grade 4 brain tumor came back or grew.
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A special MRI scan may hint at a key tumor marker
A brain scan might one day give doctors a clue about an important tumor marker, without needing tissue.
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Heart tumor spread to the brain months after surgery in one patient
A woman had brain lesions that turned out to come from a tumor in her heart, five months after that heart tumor was removed.
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A new scoring tool tries to predict survival after brain radiation
Doctors built a scoring tool to estimate how long people with cancer that spread to the brain may live after radiation treatment.
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Helping people with returning glioblastoma take part in care choices
This paper looks at how to help patients share in choices about their care when glioblastoma comes back.
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A short set of lab tests helped name five brain tumors
Doctors used a small group of lab tests to correctly name five brain tumors.
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Testing blood sodium at home for children with craniopharyngioma
This item is about doing a blood sodium test at home instead of at the hospital, for children with a brain tumor called craniopharyngioma.
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Chemotherapy still helped older lung cancer patients whose cancer spread to the brain
In a large records study, older adults who got chemotherapy lived longer than those who did not.