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Lani · 03-08-2011, 09:22 AM

Don't have time to look up now, but it seems possible they might be able to do a lumbar puncture to look for cancer cells and characterize them for leptomeningeal tumor as it is on the lining outside the brain and spinal cord so cells could be floating around in the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes these linings

Those cells could be individually characterized--they have the technology

Need to find out if this is just conjectural or actually turns out to be the case.

I usually only post article or presentations/posters from meetings, so am warning what I posted above has not be verified yet to actually be the case,
just my supposition.

03-08-2011, 09:22 AM	#11
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,778	Re: intrathecal herceptin for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (too many mets to count) Don't have time to look up now, but it seems possible they might be able to do a lumbar puncture to look for cancer cells and characterize them for leptomeningeal tumor as it is on the lining outside the brain and spinal cord so cells could be floating around in the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes these linings Those cells could be individually characterized--they have the technology Need to find out if this is just conjectural or actually turns out to be the case. I usually only post article or presentations/posters from meetings, so am warning what I posted above has not be verified yet to actually be the case, just my supposition.