title: [Update on neuro-oncology].
abstract: This paper summarizes the recent advances in the field of neuro-oncology. Improvement in the surgical procedures and radiosurgery, correlation between genetic alteration and the chemosensitivity of some primary brain tumors, definition of optimal therapeutic regimen in primary central nervous system lymphoma and better insights in the physiopathology of paraneoplastic syndrome represent the most significant contribution in the field over the past three years.
authors.affiliation: Service neurologie, Fédération Mazarin, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47, bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris.
authors.forename: Elie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Louis
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carpentier
authors.forename: Jean-Yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Delattre
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy*; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D005910:Glioma / Q000201:enzymology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000628:therapy*; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000628:therapy*; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy