New Approaches with Precision Medicine in Adult Brain Tumors.

ABSTRACT: Primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors represent a heterogenous group of tumors. The 2021 fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the CNS emphasizes the advanced role of molecular diagnostics with routine implementation of molecular biomarkers in addition to histologic features in the classification of CNS tumors. Thus, novel diagnostic methods such as DNA methylome profiling are increasingly used to provide a more precise diagnostic work-up of CNS tumors. In addition to these diagnostic precision medicine advantages, molecular alterations are also addressed therapeutically with targeted therapies. Like in other tumor entities, precision medicine has therefore also arrived in the treatment of CNS malignancies as the application of targeted therapies has shown promising re

SUBMITTER: Leibetseder A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8833635 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature