Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Gliomas: Preserving Function and Quality of Life
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 March 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroanatomy; neuro-oncology; awake craniotomy; intraoperative neuro-monitoring; brain mapping; tractography; transcranial magnetic stimulation
Interests: neuro-oncology; intraoperative neuromonitoring; navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation; fMRI; tractography; neuro-anatomy
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Dear Colleagues,
While the neuro-oncology community has witnessed significant developments in recent years, surgery remains at the forefront of glioma treatment. Its role has been established in increasing progression-free and overall survival, both in low- and high-grade gliomas. At the same time, obtaining as much tissue as possible has become essential in an era of improved diagnosis through next-generation sequencing and individualized treatment with targeted chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Maximal tumor debulking, however, cannot be achieved at the expense of neurological function or quality of life, a concept usually described as “onco-functional balance,” which has emerged as a new surgical paradigm.
In this Special Issue, we focus on different aspects related to improving the surgical care of patients. We intentionally consider the term “surgical advances” in a broader sense, aiming at a multidisciplinary audience and inviting contributions from neurosurgeons, imaging scientists, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, linguistics, and all the different practitioners involved in the surgical treatment of neuro-oncology patients.
In this spirit, we welcome contributions related to pre-surgical planning (e.g., concerning new techniques or novel applications of brain imaging and/or non-invasive brain mapping), intraoperative management of gliomas (e.g., neurophysiology monitoring, techniques of awake craniotomy and mapping, and intraoperative image guidance), and post-operative assessment (e.g., new techniques of rehabilitation and mechanisms of brain plasticity).
This integrated and multidisciplinary approach, we are sure, is crucial to surgical development and key to preserving function and quality of life in our patients.
Dr. Francesco Vergani
Dr. José Pedro Lavrador
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neuro-oncology
- brain mapping
- neuroimaging
- intraoperative neuro-monitoring
- functional MRI
- transcranial magnetic stimulation
- neurorehabilitation
