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How do you manage anticoagulation for patients with DVT/PE who have brain metastases?

Some medical oncologists tend to hold anticoagulation in patients who develop brain metastases for fear of causing intracranial hemorrhage. Is t...

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How do different inflammatory markers like CRP and ferritin contribute differently, if at all, to the monitoring of CART neurotoxicity?

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How do you interpret CSF pleocytosis in the context of significant leukocytosis on CBC?

For example, a patient with 100 WBCs in CSF with a peripheral WBC 43k/mm3 due to AML.

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How do you time CSF analysis for suspected CNS lymphoma in patients who are on steroids?

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How would you manage a primary dural low-grade lymphoma?

Would you consider observation following surgical resection with negative margins? Would you recommend WBRT and/or ISRT? What would be your preferred ...

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How would you approach treatment in a patient with Fanconi anemia and glioblastoma?

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How do you decide on the modality of consolidative treatment after a CR in primary CNS lymphoma patients treated with a high-dose methotrexate regimen?

How do you decide between WBRT, maintenance chemotherapy, or stem cell transplantation?

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Blood, 2015-07-23

Intracranial hemorrhage in patients with brain metastases treated with therapeutic enoxaparin: a matched cohort study.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2023 Apr 19

Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis and Treatment in Patients With Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update.

Cancer, 2024 Jan 30

Practical guidance for direct oral anticoagulant use in the treatment of venous thromboembolism in primary and metastatic brain tumor patients.

Haematologica, 2025 Feb 06

Multinational cohort study of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with brain metastases receiving anticoagulation.

Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program, 2024 Dec 06

Management of anticoagulation in patients with brain metastasis.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2013-09-01

Intensive chemotherapy and immunotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed primary CNS lymphoma: CALGB 50202 (Alliance 50202).

Leukemia & lymphoma, 2017-04

Marginal zone dural lymphoma: the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and University of Miami experiences.

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