The Brain and Spine Metastases Clinic at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center allows for close collaboration between spinal surgeons and radiation oncologists. Together, these specialists offer rapid ...
The study cohort comprised 186 patients with a mean age of 57.1 ± 13.4 years, 101 of whom were male and 18 of whom had hematologic malignancies. The median survival time was 201 days in the ...
The neuro-oncology multispecialty team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and UW Medicine has a wide breadth of expertise in both primary brain cancers and in brain and spinal cord metastases. At the ...
Leptomeningeal metastases (LM) occur when cancerous cells metastasize or spread to the leptomeninges, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), or both. The meninges are thin layers of tissue surrounding and ...
Symptoms and characteristics of cancer patient visits to an emergency room. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Upper back pain may be a sign of cancer that has spread to the spine. However, many other conditions can cause pain in the upper back, such as arthritis or a herniated disk. Some types of cancer may ...
Carcinomatous meningitis is a complication of late stage cancer. It develops when cancer cells spread to your meninges from other parts of your body. Your meninges are three layers of thin tissue that ...
The number of people developing leptomeningeal disease is increasing for the same reason that diagnoses of brain metastases are on the rise: People are living longer, giving cancer more time to spread ...