How natural language processing can aid doctors
What if a computer could read a patient's medical notes and help doctors determine important information for their treatments?
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Neoplastic Process: Brain Metastase
Medical news and research articles
Targeted radiation offers promise in patients with metastasized small cell lung cancer to the brain
A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham trialed stereotactic (targeted) brain-directed radiation in 100 patients with small cell lung cancer and brain metastases, finding they experienced positive outcomes ...
Jul 12, 2025
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Brain tumor growth patterns may help inform patient care management
As brain tumors grow, they must do one of two things: push against the brain or use finger-like extensions to invade and destroy surrounding tissue.
Jul 3, 2025
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Alzheimer's-related protein found to drive lung cancer spread to brain
Researchers at McMaster University, Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with Alzheimer's disease helps lung cancer spread to the brain—a discovery that offers ...
Jul 2, 2025
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Genetic changes control metastasis formation in colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of tumor and is responsible for around 10% of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The tumor is particularly dangerous when it forms metastases—i.e. secondary tumors—in other ...
Jun 12, 2025
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Standardized criteria for amino acid PET imaging could improve diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases
Brain metastases often occur as a result of advanced cancer, and despite medical innovations, are still associated with a poor prognosis.
May 8, 2025
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New guidelines on the role of emerging therapies in managing adults with metastatic brain tumors
The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) has updated its guidelines on using emerging therapies to treat metastatic brain tumors, reflecting improvements in pharmaceuticals, radiation therapy software and hardware, and ...
May 7, 2025
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PBAF chromatin may explain melanoma spread to the brain
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a possible reason why some cases of melanoma—a dangerous form of skin cancer—spread to the brain. Their study, published in Molecular Cell, highlights ...
Apr 30, 2025
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Therapy combination carries risk for cancer patients with brain metastases, study finds
Therapies that unleash the immune system to fight tumors have greatly extended the lives of people with many types of cancer. But there are reports that patients with melanoma and lung cancer whose disease has spread to the ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Patient-specific brain tumor models guide personalized treatment
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ShanghaiTech University have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimics the original structure ...
Feb 11, 2025
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