Brain Cancer Perspective

• Communication Coaching: Preparing for Difficult Conversations A communication coach helps patients articulate their end-of-life goals.
  Medscape Nurses, March 23, 2018
• Ketogenic Diet: Which Patients Benefit? Long a treatment for epilepsy, ketogenic diets are being studied for conditions ranging from cancer to diabetes.
  Medscape, March 20, 2018
• What to Do? Elderly Patients Sexually Harass Healthcare Staff Sexual abuse of patient care staff by geriatric patients has been a secret. The #MeToo movement is changing that perception.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 31, 2018
• 2017's Biggest Breakthroughs in Neurology   Dr Diener presents his picks for 2017's most important breakthroughs in the field of neurology.
  Medscape Neurology, December 21, 2017
• A Major Court Decision: Only Physicians Can Obtain Consent A state Supreme Court decision holds that physicians can't delegate the legal burden of informed consent to others.
  Medscape Nurses, September 18, 2017
• Being a Neurointensivist Neurointensivist Dr Tenbit Emiru talks about what attracts her to this subspecialty and what it entails on a day-to-day basis.
  Medscape Neurology, September 06, 2017
• Tackling the WHO Classification of CNS Tumors Revised WHO CNS tumor classifications should be updated in real time, two experts tell Medscape.
  Medscape Oncology, August 17, 2017
• Don't Tell John McCain to Fight His Cancer After Senator John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis, many are trying to encourage him by calling him a tough fighter. An ethicist says it is wrong to do so.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 25, 2017
• Gadolinium Contrast Agents and Brain Deposits: A Closer Look Dr McDonald has shown that all gadolinium-based contrast agents deposit to some degree, but he cautions that restrictions on these agents would set back diagnostic capability 20 years.
  Medscape Radiology, July 24, 2017
• FDG PET Predicts Glioblastoma Survival After Treatment FDG PET can provide important prognostic information in monitoring glioblastoma.
  Medscape Radiology, May 23, 2017
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) 2017 Annual Meeting Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AANS 2017.
  Medscape Neurology, April 26, 2017
• Four New and Promising Neurology Studies   Dr Christoph Diener spotlights potentially practice-changing data in concussion, multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, and glioblastoma.
  Medscape Neurology, January 26, 2017
• Picking Out Patterns in Brain Cancer Machine-learning MRI methods may predict survival in pretreated glioblastoma, according to a new study.
  Medscape Radiology, November 29, 2016
• ‘Whistleblowers’ Say Medical Residency Discriminates When Illness Strikes Residents and their advocates are calling into question a century-old training system that may be ill-suited to molding physicians who are also patients.
  Medscape Med Students, October 26, 2016
• Laser Ablation's Role in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy The advantages of this less invasive procedure are apparent--less so its ability to eliminate seizures. Dr Andrew Wilner sorts through the latest research.
  Medscape Neurology, October 06, 2016
• Malpractice Risk: The Dangers of False Positives An erroneous diagnosis borne from a misinterpreted test result can subject patients to unnecessary procedures, emotional trauma, and medical regimens that can alter their lives.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, September 14, 2016
• Immunotherapy 'Plus': Adding Radiation and Chemo to Immune Therapies As data on single-agent immunotherapies mature, oncologists are beginning to turn their attention to combination approaches.
  Medscape Oncology, June 27, 2016
• Cancer Moonshot: We Have Liftoff Initial reaction to the Moonshot ranged from cynicism to guarded optimism, but no one denies that momentum is building for this national cancer initiative -- and Big Data are the rocket boosters.
  Medscape Oncology, June 24, 2016
• Top News From ASCO 2016: Slideshow Highlights include practice-changing research in glioma, multiple myeloma, pancreatic and breast cancer, and a novel web app that ups lung cancer survival.
  Medscape News Slideshows, June 20, 2016
• Finding Hope Where There Is None All physicians have difficult cases, but some are more emotionally involved and memorable than others.
  Society of Hospital Medicine, May 24, 2016