Silent diffuse low-grade glioma: Toward screening and preventive treatment?

Abstract

We show that people with a silent glioma have more chances to die from their gliomas than from another unrelated cause. This result, combined with the knowledge that diffuse low-grade gliomas remain clinically silent for a very long period (>10 years), grounds the screening and preventive treatment of silent diffuse low-grade glioma. © 2014 American Cancer Society.