{"id":217298,"date":"2025-07-07T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brain-tumor-growth-patterns-may-help-inform-patient-care-management"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:17","slug":"brain-tumor-growth-patterns-may-help-inform-patient-care-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brain-tumor-growth-patterns-may-help-inform-patient-care-management","title":{"rendered":"Brain tumor growth patterns may help inform patient care management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-tumor-growth-patterns-may-help-inform-patient-care-management2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As brain tumors grow, they must do one of two things: push against the brain or use finger-like extensions to invade and destroy surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-solid-stress-brain-tumors-neuronal.html\">Previous research<\/a> found that tumors that push\u2014or put mechanical force on the brain\u2014cause more neurological dysfunction than tumors that destroy tissue. But what else can these different tactics of tumor growth tell us?<\/p>\n<p>Now, the same team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame, Harvard Medical School\/Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston University has developed a technique for measuring a brain tumor\u2019s mechanical force and a new model to estimate how much brain tissue a patient has lost. Published in <i>Clinical Cancer Research<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aacrjournals.org\/clincancerres\/article\/doi\/10.1158\/1078-0432.CCR-24-4159\/763391\/Solid-Stress-Estimations-via-Intraoperative-3D\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> explains how these measurements may help inform patient care and be adopted into surgeons\u2019 daily workflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As brain tumors grow, they must do one of two things: push against the brain or use finger-like extensions to invade and destroy surrounding tissue. Previous research found that tumors that push\u2014or put mechanical force on the brain\u2014cause more neurological dysfunction than tumors that destroy tissue. But what else can these different tactics of tumor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}