Open Question

Can non-enhancing infiltrative tumor burden and future-recurrence margins be measured reproducibly enough to serve as a trial endpoint?

Evidence grade: WEAK — Supported only by weak or preliminary evidence.

Why it matters

Recurrence occurs at non-enhancing infiltrative margins that current enhancement-based RANO and segmentation largely ignore; this is where patients actually fail.

Conflicting evidence

RANO 2.0 de-emphasizes T2/FLAIR to reduce noise, but infiltrative progression is clinically real and undermeasured.

What would resolve it

Develop and validate reproducible non-enhancing burden metrics vs recurrence location ground truth; inter-reader and test-retest repeatability first.

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This is an educational research resource from Resonant Labs, not clinical advice. Evidence grades and controversies are summarized from the literature and may change as the field evolves.