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.
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Lawler, S. E., Antonio Chiocca, E., & Cook, C. H. (2020). Cytomegalovirus encephalopathy during brain tumor irradiation. Clinical Cancer Research, 26(13), 3077–3078. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0646
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