Central nervous system germinomas are treatment-sensitive tumors with excellent survival outcomes. Current treatment strategies combine chemotherapy with radiotherapy (RT) in order to reduce the field and dose of RT. Germinomas originating in the basal ganglia/thalamus have proven challenging to treat given their rarity and poorly defined imaging characteristics. Craniospinal, whole brain, whole ventricle, and focal RT have all been utilized; however, the best treatment strategy remains unclear. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021

Cardio-oncology is a new multidisciplinary area of expertise that seeks to pre-emptively and proactively address cardiac complications that emerge during and following cancer therapy. Modern therapies including molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy have broadened the agents that can cause cardiac sequelae, often with complications arising within days to weeks of therapy. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

Medulloblastoma is a highly malignant small round blue cell tumor of the posterior fossa ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

Bevacizumab is well tolerated and appears most effective for rapid tumor control to preserve vision and improve morbidity ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

This chapter summarizes recent advances in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma and potential novel therapies ...

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• 2018
• November 2018

In this study, we report the case of an adolescent NMC patient presenting with severe facial pain, proptosis and visual impairment due to a mass arising from... ...

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• 2015
• November 2015

The Telethon Adventurers have announced a new research fellowship to investigate the genes involved in childhood brain tumours. ...

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• 2011
• December

This study investigates the different patterns of relapse in patients with central nervous system mixed malignant germ cell tumors - treated with chemotherapy. ...

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• 2015
• November 2015

This study investigated the relapse and outcome patterns of patients with central nervous system mixed malignant germ cell tumors treated with chemotherapy-only ...

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• 2015
• June 2015

Researchers have identified key differences between cancers that respond to immunotherapy and those that do not. ...

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• 2022
• August