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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 2d

👉 We are excited to announce that the #EANO2025 Abstract Book is now available online! Download & explore it today: lnkd.in/dg79p6wM

#AbstractBook #NeuroOncology #neurosurgery #cancernurse #neuropathology #radiotherapy #AHP #btsm

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Gutmann Lab @gutmannlab.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share our latest work in Neuro-Oncology Advances! 🥳 After comparing several potential therapies, we identified lamotrigine as a promising therapy for NF1 optic glioma, showing both tumor reduction and vision protection. Check out the work of our great team!

Head-to-head preclinical treatment design prioritizes promising therapies for neurofibromatosis type 1 optic glioma clinical translation

AbstractBackground. Authenticated preclinical brain tumor models provide unprecedented opportunities to evaluate next-generation treatments. However, some

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neurooncologyhd.bsky.social @neurooncologyhd.bsky.social · 2d

As part of the call for applications below, the Heidelberg/Mannheim site is offering four clinician scientist/postdoc positions in the field of neuro-oncology in the departements of @wickwolfgang.bsky.social and @michael-platten.bsky.social. For applications use the link below.

Hertie Network (Hamburg site) @hertieneurosci.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Call for Applications: The Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience (Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Heidelberg/Mannheim, Munich, Tübingen) offers up to 4 postdoc/clinician scientist positions per site. Apply by Oct 31! Details 👉 www.hertie-neuroscience-hamburg.de #HertieNetwork #Jobs

Hertie Neuroscience Hamburg

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Sanjeev Herr @sanjeevherr.bsky.social · 5d

I’m thrilled to report on work I led with Dr. Shawn Hervey-Jumper and Dr. Todd Hollon which shows that we can forecast where glioblastoma will recur even at time of initial resection.

It’s wonderful to see all the work I conducted during my research year @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social come together!

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 5d

Review @sciimmunology.bsky.social @platten-lab.bsky.social
@dkfz.bsky.social
The immunology of brain tumors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 7d

💡 If you have not done so yet, and would like to renew your EANO membership for 2025, please log in via EANO’s member portal to update your data and renew your membership. Please note that membership runs on the calendar year, regardless of the date of renewal.

👉 www.eano.eu/members/eano...

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Ludwig Cancer Research @ludwigcancer.bsky.social · 15d

A team led by Ludwig Lausanne’s @johannajoyce.bsky.social & former postdoc @alvarezprado.bsky.social reports a potential drug target whose loss in certain GBM cells triggers antiviral alarms to stall cell proliferation & makes GBM tumors in mice more amenable to anti-cancer immunity.
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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 14d

🧠 Recently published in Neuro-Oncology: EANS–EANO Guidelines on the Extent of Resection in Gliomas. We’re proud to share the outcome of collaborative effort by the joint task force of EANS and EANO, providing evidence-based recommendations for clinical practice.
🔗 academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...

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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 15d

💡Only a few seats left for the EANO Tumor Board 2025, taking place on October 15 in Prague. Join us for interactive case-based discussions and expert insights. Registration is free for EANO members. Please register by October 3.
Learn more: www.eano.eu/eanomeetings...

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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 21d

🗓 5 days left! EANO seeks an Executive Editor for Neuro-Oncology Advances, co-owned by EANO & @neuroonc.bsky.social.
🔬 Join Editor-in-Chief @wickwolfgang.bsky.social to help shape the journal’s future.
📩 For active EANO members.
Deadline: September 21, 2025
🔗 Info: www.eano.eu
#NeuroOncology #EANO

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · 21d

🧠 EANS-EANO Guidelines on the extent of resection in gliomas.
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@eanoassociation.bsky.social @neuroonc.bsky.social

EANS-EANO Guidelines on the extent of resection in gliomas

Abstract. Intense efforts are employed to optimize neurosurgical resection of gliomas in different clinical scenarios. However, the level of evidence emplo

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New publication in Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Retrospective Evaluation of the Correlation Between Somatostatin Receptor PET/CT and Histopathology in Patients with Suspected Intracranial Meningiomas.
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Retrospective Evaluation of the Correlation Between Somatostatin Receptor PET/CT and Histopathology in Patients with Suspected Intracranial Meningiomas

The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the correlation between findings from somatostatin receptor (SSTR) PET/CT and histopathology in patients with suspected intracranial meningiomas. Me...

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · 28d

Assessment of 18F-FET PET-based response in patients with gliomas using the PET RANO 1.0 criteria.
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Assessment of 18F-FET PET-based response in patients with gliomas using the PET RANO 1.0 criteria

AbstractBackground. We evaluated the amino acid PET-based response assessment criteria (PET RANO 1.0) for their proficiency in predicting longer survival i

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · 28d

Prognostic value of [18F]FET-PET in diffuse low-grade (grade 2) gliomas after the 2021 classification of CNS tumors.
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Prognostic value of [18F]FET-PET in diffuse low-grade (grade 2) gliomas after the 2021 classification of CNS tumors - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Purpose Amino acid PET with [18F]-fluoroethylthyrosine ([18F]FET-PET) is frequently utilized in gliomas. Most studies on prognostication based on amino acid PET comprise mixed cohorts of brain tumors ...

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · 29d

Tumor Versus Capillary Telangiectasia in Recurring Glioblastoma.
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@nathaliealbert.bsky.social

Tumor Versus Capillary Telangiectasia in Recurring... : Clinical Nuclear Medicine

stant tumor manifestation. However, multimodal MRI revealed a benign capillary telangiectasia in the anterior cingulate gyrus. While 18F-FET-PET is highly sensitive for detecting tumor activity, vascu...

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Wolfgang Wick @wickwolfgang.bsky.social · Sep 8

NOA Researchers from 13 German sites led by a team from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg (UKHD) & @dkfz.bsky.social have successfully completed the multicenter study “NCT Neuro Master Match (N2M2)”.

Molecularly matched targeted therapies plus radiotherapy in glioblastoma: the phase 1/2a N2M2 umbrella trial

Nature Medicine - In a phase 1/2a umbrella trial in patients with glioblastoma matching targeted therapies according to tumor molecular profiling, temsirolimus plus radiotherapy improved PFS...

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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · Sep 6

and the News & Views www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Depriving brain tumours of an amino acid could enhance chemotherapy

Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, depends on the amino acid serine as a fuel source. A serine-deficient diet has been shown to slow tumour growth in mice.

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Dan Wahl @danwahlmd.bsky.social · Sep 6

New discovery from our team defining how human brain cancers rewire the metabolism of the normal brain published this week @nature.com and led by stellar postdoc Drew Scott (comentored by @lyssiotislab.bsky.social and currently on job market with a K99/R00). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth - Nature

The cortex fuels essential physiological processes with glucose-derived carbon, while gliomas fuel their aggressiveness by rerouting glucose carbon pathways and scavenging alternative carbon sources s...

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · Sep 5

Prediction of progression-free and overall survival following temozolomide chemoradiation using FET PET-based parameters including radiomics in patients with glioblastoma.
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Prediction of progression-free and overall survival following temozolomide chemoradiation using FET PET-based parameters including radiomics in patients with glioblastoma

AbstractBackground. Early after surgery and completion of first-line radiotherapy with concomitant temozolomide, the prediction of progression-free and ove

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Matthia Karreman @matthiakarreman.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do #metastases survive (and thrive!) in the #brain microenvironment?

In our review, now online @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we discuss the recent findings on #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastases:
Learn all about how #cancer cells adapt to, and communicate with, this unique environment 🧠

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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · Sep 1

Still 3 days left! Regular rate registration for #EANO2025 closes on Wed, Sept 3. Join us in #Prague for Europe’s leading #NeuroOncology congress – bringing together clinicians, researchers, nurses, and AHPs from across the globe. 👉 Register now: www.eano.eu/eano2025/reg... @oncoalert.bsky.social

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · Aug 28

Spatial tumour characteristics as an indirect marker of metabolic dysregulation: evaluation for non-invasive IDH-genotyping of glioma using hybrid [18 F]FET-PET/MRI.
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Spatial tumour characteristics as an indirect marker of metabolic dysregulation: evaluation for non-invasive IDH-genotyping of glioma using hybrid [18 F]FET-PET/MRI - European Journal of Nuclear Medic...

Purpose The isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) genotype is crucial for diagnosing and managing adult-type diffuse glioma. We investigated spatial tumour characteristics in treatment-naïve glioma using an ...

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Nature Cancer @natcancer.nature.com · Aug 27

⭐️New Article published at Nature Cancer!

'Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling'

✒️By Wies Vallentgoed and colleagues

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling - Nature Cancer

Vallentgoed et al. integrate clinical and multiomic data from persons with matched initial and recurrent IDH-mutant astrocytomas to identify progression-associated mechanisms and report a DNA methylat...

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · Aug 27

Convection-enhanced delivery of [225Ac]Ac-DOTA-SP in recurrent glioblastoma – tumour uptake.
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Convection-enhanced delivery of [225Ac]Ac-DOTA-SP in recurrent glioblastoma – tumour uptake - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging -

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Nuclear Medicine and Neurooncology (NMN) @nmnsymposium.bsky.social · Aug 26

🔥 Hot off the press in Neuro-Oncology by @mj-mair.bsky.social et al: Prognostic stratification of newly diagnosed IDH-mutant gliomas by [18F]fluoroethyltyrosine and [11C]methionine PET – a retrospective, bicentric cohort study.
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