The three main treatments for brain metastases include surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy, alone or in combination. After resection alone, local recurrence rates are high. Whole brain radiation therapy can decrease the probability of recurrence; however, this has some disadvantages. Focal ...
AFTER SURGERY, RADIATION AND GENE THERAPY, REBECCA LILLY TAKES THE NEXT STEP AGAINST HER STUBBORN BRAIN TUMOR.Don Colburn
radiation is implanted directly into atumouror tumour-bearing tissue. Theencapsulatedradioactive sources are inserted into the tumour viacathetersor needles. A catheter can be placed into a tumour bed after tumour resection, whereas a needle can be inserted into the affected tissue directly or into...
“When the seizures became more frequent was when we discovered, after MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] tests, that she had a tumour on the brain. A surgery was done in 2013 at UHWI but since that time the tumour has regrown; it has caused her to have more violent seizures before the ...
After interviewing staff who decorate masks in radiation oncology departments all over the world, we could conclude that going that extra mile for a young patient makes all the difference. To help anyone who is intrigued by all the creatively decorated masks out there, but does not know how or...
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After you are positioned, the radiation oncologist will go to a control room nearby. From there, he or she will operate the treatment machine while watching you on a monitor or through a window. You might hear the machine make buzzing noises, and it might rotate around you....
Fore patients (8.9%) received best supportive care, and one patient (2.2%) surgery of the metastasis. Brain radiation necrosis Eight brain metastases (7.2%) developed brain radiation necrosis after a median time of 18.4 months (IQR, 9.4–26.5). Two patients complained about neurological symptoms...
Vemurafenib in patients with BRAF(V600) mutation-positive melanoma with symptomatic brain metastases: final results of an open-label pilot study. Brain metastases are frequent in patients with metastatic melanoma, indicating poor prognosis. We investigated the BRAF kinase inhibitor vemurafenib in pat......
Two patients had visual deterioration developing 3 and 6 years after treatment; six had pituitary dysfunction; and 17 had varying degrees of parenchymal changes of the brain, occurring mostly in the temporal lobes and relating to the frequent presentation of pituitary tumors (two of these also had...