{"id":225093,"date":"2025-11-14T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-brain-fluid-flow-predicts-survival-in-glioblastoma"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:06:11","slug":"how-brain-fluid-flow-predicts-survival-in-glioblastoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-brain-fluid-flow-predicts-survival-in-glioblastoma","title":{"rendered":"How brain fluid flow predicts survival in glioblastoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-brain-fluid-flow-predicts-survival-in-glioblastoma3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glioblastoma\u2014the most aggressive form of brain cancer\u2014remains one of medicine\u2019s biggest challenges. Despite surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, most patients survive only about a year after diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new discovery might change how doctors understand and monitor this <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/deadly+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deadly disease<\/a>. Specifically, the study focused on isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type glioblastoma, the most common and rapidly growing form of the tumor, known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/poor+prognosis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">poor prognosis<\/a> and limited treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/neuonc\/noaf242\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Neuro-Oncology<\/i><\/a>, researchers found that brain regions far away from the tumor\u2014known as the contralateral hemisphere (the side opposite to tumor)\u2014can reveal vital clues about a patient\u2019s survival in IDH wild-type glioblastoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glioblastoma\u2014the most aggressive form of brain cancer\u2014remains one of medicine\u2019s biggest challenges. Despite surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, most patients survive only about a year after diagnosis. However, a new discovery might change how doctors understand and monitor this deadly disease. Specifically, the study focused on isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type glioblastoma, the most common and rapidly [\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-225093","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\/225093","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=225093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}