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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A new way to map movement pathways during brain tumor surgery
Surgeons tried a computer method to better find the brain's movement pathway while removing a tumor.
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Surgery helps sort out what is growing back in a treated brain metastasis
When a treated brain tumor spot starts to grow, surgery can show whether it is cancer coming back or damage from radiation, and it often helps people feel better.
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Long-term results after proton radiation for slow growing brain tumors
Most people were still alive five years after proton radiation for a slow growing brain tumor, but fewer than half were working full time.
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Preventing a serious lung infection in people with brain tumors
Some brain tumor treatments raise the risk of a rare lung infection, and doctors can give a common antibiotic to help prevent it.
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A letter about a computer tool that reads meningioma scans
This is a short letter from experts about a computer program that tries to read brain scans of meningioma.
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A blood and spinal fluid test for cancer in the brain lining is still being studied
Researchers looked at whether tiny particles in spinal fluid or blood could help find cancer that has spread to the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
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A spinal fluid test found a brain tumor in a pregnant woman
Doctors diagnosed a woman's brain tumor by testing the fluid around her brain and spine, so she did not need a brain biopsy.
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A way to seal the bone behind the ear after brain surgery
Surgeons describe how they closed an opening in the bone behind the ear after brain surgery, to stop leaks and infection.
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A check on proposed new rules for grading IDH-mutant astrocytoma
This study checks a proposed new way for doctors to grade a brain tumor called IDH-mutant astrocytoma.
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Early trials of immune cell therapy given straight into the brain
Doctors reviewed early tests of an immune cell treatment placed right at the tumor in glioblastoma that has come back.
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Testing DNA methylation profiling on small brain tumor biopsy samples
Researchers checked how well a lab test that reads DNA patterns can identify brain tumors when only a tiny piece of tissue is available.
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Liver Cancer Spread to the Brain Looked Like a Stroke
A man's sudden weakness and trouble speaking looked like a stroke, but a brain scan showed it was cancer that had spread.
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Why the main brain tumor chemo drug stops working for some people
Researchers looked at how glioblastoma cells fix damaged DNA, and why that decides whether the standard chemo drug kills them.
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Breast cancer spread to the brain after a woman turned down standard treatment
One woman said no to standard breast cancer treatment, and seven years later the cancer had spread to her brain.
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How brain tumor diagnosis rules changed, and how AI might help doctors keep up
Doctors now use more complex rules to name and grade brain tumors, and researchers are looking at whether AI can help them apply those rules.
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A new idea for using a patient's own immune cells against glioblastoma
Researchers explain a plan for training a person's own immune cells to fight glioblastoma, but it has not been tested yet.
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How brain tumors can change the way people read
Damage to different wiring paths in the brain led to different kinds of reading trouble.
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A call to make stem cell transplant the usual next step for brain lymphoma
This item says a stem cell transplant that uses a person's own cells should be the normal next step after first treatment for lymphoma in the brain.
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Stem cell transplant held off brain lymphoma longer than more chemotherapy
A stem cell transplant kept this brain cancer from coming back longer than a second round of chemotherapy, but it was harder on the body.
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How MRI Scans Help Doctors Find Spinal Cord Tumors
This is a teaching article about using MRI scans to find tumors in the spinal cord.