Publications by authors named "Cassie Fehr"
High-grade gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors in adults. However, with an incidence of 4/100,000 per year, glioblastoma multiforme is uncommon enough to make simultaneous presentation of identical tumors in husband and wife exceedingly rare. We report the fourth couple in the literature presenting with malignant astrocytomas concurrently.
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- - The study aimed to compare waiting times for surgical assessment and treatment for epilepsy between urban areas with neurologists and rural areas without them in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- - Researchers analyzed 98 cases referred for epilepsy surgery from 2007 to 2017, finding that patients in cities with neurologists had significantly shorter wait times for diagnosis and surgery compared to those in rural areas.
- - The results indicated that the median wait times for patients in urban areas were roughly 4-5 years shorter at each stage of the treatment process, highlighting how the availability of neurologists impacts timely surgical interventions for epilepsy.