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 antibody drug shrank brain tumors in two patients
Two people whose brain tumor came back were given a new drug, and both tumors got smaller.
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A rare spinal tumor that spread and caused brain and spinal fluid problems
This is a report about a rare spinal cord tumor and the unusual problems it caused.
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Custom plastic implants helped eye position after surgery for tumors near the eye
After surgery for a tumor in the bone around the eye, custom-made implants helped most patients' eyes sit and work better.
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Awake brain surgery done safely in a 6-year-old boy
Doctors report doing awake brain tumor surgery on a 6-year-old child, who came through it without any loss of speech or movement.
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How cells are arranged in brain metastases may hint at survival
In a small study, the way certain immune and tumor cells were arranged in brain tumor samples lined up with how long people lived after surgery.
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A routine blood test result was linked to survival in a fast-growing brain tumor
A common blood test may hint at how a brain tumor is likely to behave, but it is not a treatment.
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One boy's tumor was matched to drugs by testing his tumor's genes
Doctors tested a child's tumor, picked drugs to match it, and his tumor went away.
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Brain damage from old radiation showed up 46 months later in one patient
New spots on a woman's brain scan looked like her cancer was back, but surgery showed it was damage from radiation she had years earlier.
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A review of tools that try to predict survival in lung cancer that has spread to the brain
Researchers looked back at recent work on computer models that try to predict how long people with lung cancer that has spread to the brain may live.
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A review of how glioblastoma cells starve immune cells of fuel
Scientists reviewed how brain tumor cells hog the fuel that immune cells need to fight them.
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Three ways lower grade brain tumors respond to chemotherapy
Researchers found three different patterns in how these tumors change during chemotherapy.
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A review of the immune cells found inside glioblastoma tumors
Researchers looked at what we know about the immune cells that get inside brain tumors, and how that knowledge might lead to new treatments.
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A look at 198 children with the brain tumor meningioma
Most children in this study were still alive many years after treatment for a brain tumor called meningioma.
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A Brain Mapping Test May Show Who Is at Risk of Movement Problems
A painless magnetic brain test before surgery may help doctors see which glioma patients are more likely to have trouble moving.
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Smoking before pituitary tumor surgery was linked to more problems afterward
People who smoked before pituitary tumor surgery had more problems after it than people who did not smoke.
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Awake and asleep brain mapping gave similar results in glioma surgery
Two ways of protecting movement during brain tumor surgery led to similar results for patients.
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A rare tumor at the back of the brain, removed with surgery
Doctors found a rare kind of tumor at the back of one woman's brain, and surgery took all of it out.
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A blood test gave a falsely low reading in a woman with a giant pituitary tumor
A large pituitary tumor can trick a hormone blood test into reading much lower than the truth, and a repeat test done a different way found the real level.
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A review of how doctors prepare patients with vestibular schwannoma for surgery
This is a summary of current practice for checking and preparing patients with a vestibular schwannoma before surgery.
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A lung cancer drug also worked on tumors that had spread to the brain
In a large study of people with ROS1 lung cancer, the drug crizotinib shrank tumors, including tumors in the brain.