Brain Neoplasm News Today

Medscape spoke to an expert about how glioblastomas are treated, the role that vaccinations play, and what therapeutic approaches might be derived from the discovery of how glioblastomas spread in the brain.

Certain rare disorders entail symptoms that evoke images of ominous characters from folktales.

Radiation-induced meningiomas were more likely to recur and were more aggressive. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

The Risk Analysis Index is better at forecasting in-hospital complications than the often-used frailty index. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

Most cancer cases are not considered clusters, but even when a cancer cluster is identified, the cause often remains elusive.

Combining dabrafenib with trametinib markedly improved response rates and delayed progression over standard-of-care chemotherapy in pediatric BRAF V600-mutant low-grade glioma in a phase 2 trial.

Black doctors across the country commonly experience discrimination, ranging from microaggressions to career-threatening disciplinary actions.

A large UK study has found no link between brain tumors and cell phone use, even among individuals who used them daily and for more than 10 years.

Covered up for decades, the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor near Los Angeles in 1959 has had devastating consequences for families living nearby.

An in vitro study of normal and tumor glial cells showed that incubation with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine led to alterations in the biochemical profile of various cell organelles.