Primary brain tumors (PBTs) are some of the most difficult types of cancer to treat, and despite advancements in surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, new strategies for the treatment of PBTs are needed, especially for those with poor prognosis suc...
Rehabilitative measures have been shown to benefit patients with primary brain tumors (PBT). To provide a high quality of care, clinicians should be aware of common challenges in this population including a variety of medical complications, symptoms,...
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the care of cancer patients. A diverse set of strategies to overcome cancer immunosuppression and enhance the tumor-directed immune response are in clinical use, but have not achieved transformative benefits for brain...
Primary brain tumors are a leading cause of death worldwide and are characterized by extraordinary heterogeneity and high invasiveness. Current drug and radiotherapy therapies combined with surgical approaches tend to increase the five-year survival...
The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of methylation of O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter (MGMTp) and isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH 1) mutations on amino acid metabolism evaluated with 3,4-dihydroxy-6-[18F]-fluoro-l-phen...
Novel parameters in PET imaging, such as volumetric parameters, are gaining interest in the scientific literature, but the role of dopaminergic tumor volume (DTV) and total lesion F-DOPA activity (TLDA) and the correlation between volumetric and SUV-...
The aim of this study was to compare the pre- and postoperative function of patients qualifying for resection of malignant and nonmalignant primary brain tumors to determine the relationship among tumor type, function, and the course of rehabilitatio...
Background: Patients with primary brain tumors face profound disease- and treatment-related immunosuppression, placing them at high risk for severe infections. Their capacity to mount protective immune responses to vaccination, particularly to repeat...
Primary malignant brain tumors are heterogeneous and infrequent neoplasms. Their classification, therapeutic regimen and prognosis have undergone significant development requiring the innovation of an imaging diagnostic. The performance of enhanced m...
Background: Primary malignant brain tumors (PBT) impose substantial burdens on patients and caregivers. Caregivers are essential in the delivery of outpatient care for patients with PBT but experience high levels of fatigue, distress, and health decl...
Background: Brain metastases (BMs), particularly synchronous brain metastases, in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are uncommon. The survival benefit of primary tumor resection (PTR) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer is controversial. Whe...
BRAF mutations have been identified as targetable, oncogenic mutations in many cancers. Given the paucity of treatments for primary brain tumors and the poor prognosis associated with high-grade gliomas, BRAF mutations in glioma are of considerable i...
Primary and secondary brain tumors have always been a challenge due to their high morbidity and poor prognosis. The incidence of brain metastasis is also increasing with the advent of effective new treatments. Traditional systemic treatments have his...
Malignant central nervous system (CNS) cancers include a group of heterogeneous dis-eases characterized by a relative resistance to treatments and distinguished as either primary tumors arising in the CNS or secondary tumors that spread from other or...
Background: Despite modern imaging methods, a long symptom-to-diagnosis interval can be observed in patients with primary brain tumors. Objective: The study evaluated the initial and subsequent clinical presentation of patients with brain tumors in t...
Antibodies against immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the treatment of multiple aggressive malignancies, including melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer. ICIs for the treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors have been u...
Brain metastases represent a heterogenous group of tumors, with distinct characteristics and prognosis, depending on the primary malignancy and on the patient performance status. In up to 28% of cases, neurological symptoms from a brain metastasis ar...
Background: Primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) are rare entities, with only a minority being malignant and capable of distant dissemination. Among the rarest and most challenging metastatic events are brain metastases originating from cardiac tumors. Due...
Although primary brain tumors are relatively rare, they cause significant morbidity and mortality due to the high rates of neurological impairment. The purpose of this study was to examine the physical and functional outcomes of patients with primary...
MRI is undoubtedly the cornerstone of brain tumor imaging, playing a key role in all phases of patient management, starting from diagnosis, through therapy planning, to treatment response and/or recurrence assessment. Currently, neuroimaging can desc...
The identification of patients with different brain tumors is solely built on imaging diagnostics, indicating the need for novel methods to facilitate disease recognition. Glycosylation is a chemical modification of proteins, reportedly altered in se...
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Rehabilitation services play a crucial role in improving the functionality and quality of life of individuals with a brain tumor; however, outcomes of inpatient rehabilitation based on tumor characteristics are not well known in the literature. This...
Brain metastases (BM) from colorectal cancer (CRC) are a rare but increasing event. Surgical resection of oligometastatic disease, including BM, may produce a survival benefit in selected patients. Previous studies described the HER-2 expression patt...
Background: Primary meningeal melanocytic tumors are ultra-rare entities with distinct histological and molecular features compared with other melanocytic or pigmented lesions, such as brain and leptomeningeal metastases from metastatic melanoma. Met...
Targeted therapies for cancers have improved primary tumor response rates, but concomitantly, brain metastases (BM) have become the most common brain tumors in adults and are associated with a dismal prognosis of generally less than 6 months, irrespe...
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between ocular motor cranial nerve palsies (OMCNP) and the occurrence of primary malignant brain tumors in a Korean population, using the national sample cohort database from Korea National Hea...
The diagnosis of primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, which is predominantly of the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma type (CNS DLBCL), is challenging. MicroRNAs (miRs) are gene expression-regulating non-coding RNAs that are potential biomarker...
Chemoattraction is a normal and essential process, but it can also be involved in tumorigenesis. This phenomenon plays a key role in glioblastoma (GBM). The GBM tumor cells are extremely difficult to eradicate, due to their strong capacity to migrate...
The blood–brain tumor barrier represents a major obstacle for anticancer drug delivery to brain tumors. Thus, novel strategies aimed at targeting and breaching this structure are of great experimental and clinical interest. This review is prima...
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Delta Neutrophil Index (DNI) and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) in distinguishing malignant from benign primary brain tumors during the preoperative period. Methods: This retro...
Two decades of “promising results” in liquid biopsy have led to both continuing disappointment and hope that the new era of minimally invasive, personalized analysis can be applied for better diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and therapy of cancer. H...
Sex disparities in glioblastoma (GBM) have received increasing attention. Sex-related differences for several molecular markers have been reported, which could impact on clinical factors and outcomes. We therefore analyzed data on all patients with G...
Whereas traditional histology and light microscopy require multiple steps of formalin fixation, paraffin embedding, and sectioning to generate images for pathologic diagnosis, Microscopy using Ultraviolet Surface Excitation (MUSE) operates through UV...
Background and Objectives: The role of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) has been widely studied in the context of carcinogenesis. It has been involved in the pathogenesis of primary brain tumors or brain metastases due to its pleiotropi...
Gliomas are primary brain tumors that present the majority of malignant adult brain tumors. Gliomas are subdivided into low- and high-grade tumors. Despite extensive research in recent years, the prognosis of malignant glioma patients remains poor. T...
Background: Patients with primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors often experience fatigue and sleep disturbances, significantly impacting their quality of life. Exercise has been shown to improve these symptoms in various cancer populations. The...
Primary brain tumors represent a significant focus of contemporary research. With advancements in technology and the increasing detection of cases through novel diagnostic methods, innovative therapies and approaches to chemotherapy continue to emerg...
Although primary studies have reported the safety and efficacy of LITT as a primary treatment in glioma, they are limited by sample sizes and institutional variation in stereotactic parameters such as temperature and laser power. The current literatu...
In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment, radiotherapy responses are not durable and toxicity limits therapy. We find that AM-101, a synthetic benzodiazepine activator of GABA(A) receptor, impairs the viability and clonogenicity of both primar...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common aggressive malignant primary brain tumor, afflicting approximately 3 in every 100,000 persons in the United States, with an incidence rate that is 1 [...]
Brain tumor (BT) patients can experience neurological complications as a result of the disease itself or after exposure to anticancer treatment. It is already known that BT patients have a poor survival and quality of life due to tumor progression, b...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common aggressive malignant primary brain tumor, afflicting approximately 3.19 per 100,000 persons in the United States with an incidence 1.6 times higher in males compared to females. Arising from the glial...
Intraoperative fluorescence-guided surgery is an important adjunct to brain tumor resection. However, fluorescent probe performance varies across molecularly and histopathologically distinct entities, including IDH-wildtype glioblastoma, metastatic b...
Brain tumors represent a heterogeneous group of neoplasms involving the brain or nearby tissues, affecting populations of all ages with a high incidence worldwide. Among the primary brain tumors, the most aggressive and also the most common is gliobl...
Bevacizumab has been shown to improve progression-free survival and neurologic function, but failed to improve overall survival in newly diagnosed glioblastoma and at first recurrence. Nonetheless, bevacizumab is widely used in patients with recurren...
Background: Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a nuclear reaction-based tumor cell-selective particle irradiation method. High-dose methotrexate and whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) are the recommended treatments for primary central nervous...
Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common malignant primary brain tumors, which accounts for 60–70% of all gliomas. Conventional diagnosis and the decision of post-operation treatment plan for glioblastoma is mainly based on the...
Lung adenocarcinoma has a strong propensity to metastasize to the brain. The brain metastases are difficult to treat and can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Identifying patients with increased risk of developing brain metastasis can assist...
Inpatient rehabilitation should be assessed to improve each functional domain in patients with brain tumor. However, no previous study has reported risk factors for unplanned transfer of this patient population to primary acute care units during a co...
Background/Objectives: This study evaluates whether convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained to determine the primary tumor origin from MRI images alone in patients with metastatic brain lesions. Methods: This retrospective, monocentric st...
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