CNS/Brain Cancer
Feature
Glioblastoma, bone sarcoma, and liver cancer: tough battles rage on for some tumors
News
Alzheimer’s drug improves cognitive function after RT for brain tumors
Key clinical point: Among adult brain tumor survivors who underwent partial- or whole-brain irradiation, treatment with donepezil compared with...
Reviews
Sleep disorders in patients with cancer
News
FDA approves first drug for high-risk neuroblastoma
News
Hippocampus-sparing brain radiotherapy preserves memory, QOL
Key clinical point: Whole-brain radiotherapy that spares the hippocampal neural stem cell compartment preserves memory and QOL in cancer patients...
Case-Based Review
Metastatic Brain Tumors
Case-Based Review
Primary Brain Tumors
News
Bevacizumab fails to improve survival in newly diagnosed glioblastoma
Major finding: Two similar studies found no difference in median survival with the addition of bevacizumab to standard therapy for patients with...
Conference Coverage
New chemo regimen is active against recalcitrant neuroendocrine tumors
Major finding: The overall response rate was 43% and the clinical benefit rate was 97%. Data source: A randomized phase II trial among 28 patients...
News
Gene panel identifies residual neuroblastoma metastases
Major finding: In a multivariate analysis, patients negative for minimal residual disease had about a fourfold increased rate of progression-free...
News
CENTRIC results signal end of cilenglitide in glioblastoma
Major finding: Overall survival was 26.3 months in both study arms, and more events occurred in the cilenglitide arm than in the control arm (144...