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Testing a fluid known as cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, found surrounding the brain and spinal cord, reveals a lot about brain tumors and the immune response to them. Johns Hopkins neurosurgery department director Chetan Bettegowda and test developer says this …

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Tumor components and immune response indicators can be found in cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, when someone has a brain tumor, in a new test developed by Chetan Bettagowda, director of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and one of the test’s developers.  …

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Your immune system has everything to do with how your body responds to cancer, and brain tumors are no exception. A new test aims to assess that along with characterizing the tumor itself. Chetan Bettegowda, director of neurosurgery at Johns …

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Your brain and spinal cord are floating in something called cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, and when brain tumors develop they shed cells and cellular components into this fluid. A new test developed by director of neurosurgery Chetan Bettegowda at Johns …

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When someone is thought to have a brain tumor procedures to make the diagnosis may be risky or invasive, so a new test developed by Chetan Bettegowda, director of the department of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and colleagues is a …

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How does listening to patients transform cancer care? In part two of Medicine Made General’s conversation on cancer survivorship, Johns Hopkins researcher Claire Snyder, PhD, MHS, returns to explain how her work helps patients’ voices shape their care. She discusses …

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In this episode of Medicine Made General, Johns Hopkins cancer survivorship researcher Claire Snyder, PhD, MHS, joins hosts Dr. Bimal Ashar and Katie Caviness-Crolley to explore what survivorship really means—and why it begins at diagnosis, not after treatment ends. Dr. Snyder discusses how …

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