ALLMedicine™ Astrocytoma Center

Sep 3rd, 2021 - Spinal cord diseases in pediatric patients are highly variable in terms of presentation, pathology, and prognosis. Not only do they differ with respect to each other but so too with their adult equivalents. Some of the most common diseases are aut...

Sep 1st, 2021 - Optic nerve astrocytomas (ONAs) are neurological neoplasms in the central nervous system (CNS), and they have the highest incidence rate among all the tumor types in the visual pathway. In this study, we conducted a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and...

Aug 20th, 2021 - A 57-year-old woman was diagnosed with IDH-wildtype (IDHwt) astrocytoma (World Health Organization grade II) with the molecular characteristics of glioblastoma. She underwent concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy according to the Stupp protocol...

Aug 17th, 2021 - The surgical management of brainstem glioma is challenging and has significant morbidity. Advances in surgical armamentarium has presented the opportunity to tackle these lesions. We present the case of a paediatric patient with a 2.3cm midbrain p...

Aug 16th, 2021 - Clinicians and machine classifiers reliably diagnose pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) but less accurately distinguish medulloblastoma (MB) from ependymoma (EP). One strategy is to first rule out the most identifiable ...

Nov 5th, 2015 - Adult patients (older than 18 years of age) with newly diagnosed World Health Organization (WHO) Grade II gliomas (Oligodendroglioma, astrocytoma, mixed oligoastrocytoma). Is there a role for chemotherapy as adjuvant therapy of choice in treatment...

Jan 7th, 2021 - The reversible BET inhibitor CC-90010 was found to have preliminary antitumor activity in patients with heavily pretreated, advanced solid tumors and relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the updated results of a phase 1 study (NC...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Rajen Mody, MBBS The relative rarity of pediatric cancers has hampered the work of uncovering their causes and developing new therapies, but efforts to expand the use of genomic and biomarker testing are beginning to provide new options for child...

Dec 5th, 2020 - //THE ONLINE ONCOLOGIST™ American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology The American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO) is a multidisciplinary organization that works to promote the care of children and adolescents with blo...

Dec 4th, 2020 - Zachary Ward Childhood cancer is significantly underdiagnosed—especially in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa—underscoring the need for stronger health systems and the expansion of universal health coverage, according to an analysis publish...

Dec 4th, 2020 - Tara Brinkman, PhD Sixty percent of adult survivors of pediatric CNS tumors do not achieve full functional and social independence, according to results from a study conducted by researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Univer...