Cytomegalovirus Encephalopathy during Brain Tumor Irradiation.
Sean E LawlerE Antonio ChioccaCharles H CookPublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2020)
Some patients with brain cancer show extremely short survival postradiochemotherapy treatment for unknown reasons. Recent work shows that this is closely linked to encephalopathy associated with reactivation of latent cytomegalovirus in the host. Importantly, survival can be enhanced by treatment with antiviral drugs.See related article by Goerig et al., p. 3259.