Publisher's Synopsis
Primary Brain Tumors in Adults: Advances in Mechanistic Understanding, Evaluation, and Management, Volume 166 in the Advances in Cancer Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Molecular drivers in primary brain tumor formation, Novel CSF pathways in the glioma (DIPG), Volumetric analysis in low grade gliomas and other advanced MR imaging techniques, Liquid biopsy in the diagnosis of primary brain tumors, Intraoperative imaging techniques to improve tumor detection, and much more.
Additional chapters focus on Supramaximal resection in primary brain tumors, Radiotherapeutic approaches: IMRT, re-irradiation, Molecularly driven therapies in the treatment of primary brain tumors, and Changes in the immune microenvironment and immunotherapeutic strategies in the treatment of gliomas.
