Researchers hope their findings could lead to targeted interventions to improve cognitive outcomes in pediatric brain tumor survivors from families with low socioeconomic status.
A novel workflow that combines advanced optical imaging with an artificial intelligence algorithm may accurately diagnose brain tumors in real time in the operating room.
Unlike previous studies, the researchers found that in their practice, no-treatment rates between elderly and nonelderly patients with biopsy-proven NMSCs were significantly different.
Survivors of childhood low-grade gliomas treated with radiotherapy have poorer neuropsychological and socioeconomic-status outcomes.
AbbVie has halted enrollment in all ongoing studies of depatuxizumab mafodotin, after an Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) recommended a phase 3 study of the treatment be stopped due to a lack of survival benefit.
Highest incidence seen for patients with non-small cell lung cancer and triple-negative breast cancer
Most patients undergoing skull base irradiation for cancer do not have detectable cognitive impairment.
The use of postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery could be a substitute for whole-brain radiotherapy, which has been linked to cognitive adverse effects.
Over 10 000 brain and CNS tumors are diagnosed in adolescent and young adults each year.
Two years post-enrollment, 43% of patients in the combination therapy group were alive.
