"Brain metastases are very often detected on screening MRI, which is part of the standard ... "The silver lining, so to speak, is that disease within the brain responds very well to oral TKIs ...

More information: Annabel J. Sorby-Adams et al, Portable, low-field magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of Alzheimer's disease, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54972-x ...

Metastatic brain tumors are especially common in patients with advanced lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma, with a poor prognosis and a survival period often limited to just a few months.

The study revealed that MRI scans detected serious findings in only a small percentage of cases: 1.4% for the brain, 1.3% for the chest, and 1.9% for the abdomen. Additionally, the scans often ...

Brain metastases from prostate cancer (PC) seem to be more frequent than in the past, possibly because advances in the treatment of patients with castration-resistant PC have prolonged their survival.

To disentangle the effects of WBRT on neurocognition from the effects inherent to the underlying disease ... brain tumour versus the effect of WBRT, we identified studies that investigated the effect ...

(A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is made by a pathological evaluation of brain tissue, which is almost never obtained while a person is alive.) What the MRI shows is a disease of the blood ...

(A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is made by a pathological evaluation of brain tissue, which is almost never obtained while a person is alive.) What the MRI shows is a disease of the blood ...

Metastasis to the brain occurs in 20%–40% of cancer patients.1 About 20% of these metastases are located in the posterior fossa, cerebellum, and brainstem. Metastatic disease to periventricular brain ...

Alzheimer’s disease may cause degeneration of neurons in the brain through amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, inflammation, and brain atrophy. The condition may affect different parts of ...