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 ...

Resilience in the Face of Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Psychologic Morbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Women With Ovarian Cancer We retrospectively reviewed the documented ...

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 ...

A new system for the treatment of spinal tumors is a combination of radiofrequency ablation, which uses the heat energy of radio frequency waves to ablate and destroy tumors, and subsequent ...

Terminal cancer patients often suffer severe pain as the cancer frequently metastasizes to the spine before they pass away. The reason for this has not yet been clarified, but recently, a group of ...

Bone metastasis occurs when cancer cells from other parts of the body spread to the bone. The most common area for bone metastasis is the spine. The first symptom a person might experience is bone ...

Researchers reported on a prediction model developed to determine which patients with spinal metastases were likely to benefit from surgery.

A 22-year-old man with no significant medical history presented with 8 months of lower back pain and paresthesia, as well as weakness involving the bilateral lower extremities. Upon further ...

The neuro-oncology team at Fred Hutch 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 Fred Hutch Brain and ...

BALTIMORE -- The use of long-stem hemiarthroplasty (LSHA) did not improve quality-of-life (QoL) or functional outcomes compared to intramedullary nailing (IMN) in treating pathological fractures of ...