Brain Cancer

Among 71 patients with neuroblastoma, 48.6% achieved an objective response and 29% achieved a complete response with a 4-drug combination.

Concurrent treatment with reirradiation and bevacizumab prolonged progression-free survival, but not overall survival, in patients with recurrent glioblastoma.

The FDA approval of dabrafenib plus trametinib for BRAF V600E–mutated unresectable or metastatic solid tumors highlights a potential need for routine BRAF testing in clinical practice, experts say.

Investigators reported that 33% of patients receiving dabrafenib plus trametinib for BRAF V600E–mutated glioma responded to treatment, including 3 complete responses and 12 partial responses.

Preliminary findings from the phase 1/2a TEM-GBM study highlight the potential utility of temferon, genetically modified Tie2-expressing monocytes targeting interferon a2 in treating patients with glioblastoma.

Although adjuvant neratinib was not found to improve progression-free or overall survival across a population of patients with glioblastoma, the agent yielded promising progression-free survival rates in a subset of patients with EGFR-positive disease.

Caregivers have their own set of issues and anxieties, but a telehealth support service may help.

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.

The FDA has approved an investigational new drug application for berubicin for the treatment of patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

AV-GBM-1, a personalized cancer vaccine, demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma, according to data from a phase 2 trial (NCT03400917).

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to paxalisib for the treatment of patients with glioblastoma.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation for the PKCβ inhibitor enzastaurin for the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

The FDA has accepted a biologics license application for a proposed biosimilar for bevacizumab (Avastin), according to an announcement by Mylan during its fourth quarter 2019 earnings call.

Glioblastoma is historically difficult to treat, but recent research shows some potential for immunotherapy/vaccine combinations for these patients.

Two new single agents led to brain penetrance and 2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) suppression in patients with low-grade glioma who harbor IDH1 mutations, according to updated findings.

The Food and Drug Administration approved bevacizumab-bvzr (Zirabev) – a biosimilar for bevacizumab (Avastin) for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer; unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic NSCLC; recurrent glioblastoma; metastatic renal cell carcinoma; and persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Patients can track symptoms and anonymously send them to glioblastoma researchers around the world.

Children with severe sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) from brain tumor treatment demonstrated greater reading difficulties compared with those who experienced mild or no hearing loss.

Nivolumab plus radiation did not improve overall survival compared to temololomide in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

Researchers are working on a way to spark the immune response against glioblastoma, making the nurses’ role in treatment even more important.

Children with pediatric posterior fossa tumors like medulloblastoma who are treated with radiotherapy may be less likely to recall specific details of events that occurred after treatmen.

I was particularly drawn to Robert Pearl, MD's comments on Senator John McCain's decision to discontinue therapy—he called it "a service to his family and loved ones."

In a phase 1 clinical trial, researchers injected a genetically altered version of the poliovirus into glioblastoma tumors.

Based on the identification of 6 gene variations that make carriers susceptible to developing medulloblastoma and possibly other cancers, researchers have proposed subgroup-based counseling and screening recommendations.

CE lesson worth 1 contact hour that is intended to advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with cancer.

Clinical Trial in Progress: Investigators are seeking to determine whether the combination of eflornithine with lomustine can improve survival for patients with recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare form of brain tumor.

One drug may have discovered a path to overcome a particularly difficult hurdle in brain cancer treatment.

The combination of eflornithine (alphadifluoromethylornithine) and lomustine is currently being explored as a treatment for patients with recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma (AA).

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has added the combination of TTFields (Optune) and temozolomide (Temodar) to its Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Central Nervous System Cancers for Category 1 treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme following maximal safe resection and completion of radiation therapy.

In a promising development in brain cancer research, injectable viruses have been found to be able to breach the blood-brain barrier and deliver immunotherapy to tumors.