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GLIOBLASTOMA NEWSLETTER
Volume 2, Number 3 - 11 February 2003

Volume 2
Archive


Contents


Early Detection
Epidemiology & Risk Factors
Integrative Medicine
Prognosis & Outcome
Treatment

Early Detection


Armstrong CL, Goldstein B, Shera D, Ledakis GE, Tallent EM
The predictive value of longitudinal neuropsychologic assessment in the early detection of brain tumor recurrence
Cancer 2003 Feb 1;97(3):649-56 



Epidemiology & Risk Factors


Musicco M, Sant M, Molinari S, Filippini G, Gatta G, Berrino F
A case-control study of brain gliomas and occupational exposure to chemical carcinogens: the risk to farmers
Am J Epidemiol 1988 Oct;128(4):778-85



Integrative Medicine


Bell HS, Wharton SB, Leaver HA, Whittle IR
Effects of N-6 essential fatty acids on glioma invasion and growth: experimental studies with glioma spheroids in collagen gels
J Neurosurg 1999 Dec;91(6):989-96 


Jianmin Chen, P. Mark Stavro, Lilian U. Thompson
Dietary Flaxseed Inhibits Human Breast Cancer Growth and Metastasis and Downregulates Expression of Insulin-Like Growth Factor and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
Nutrition and Cancer, Volume: 43 Number: 2 Page: 187 -- 192 (2002)


Wataru Komatsu, Yutaka Miura, Kazumi Yagasaki
Induction of Tumor Necrosis Factor Production and Antitumor Effect by Cabbage Extract

Nutrition and Cancer, Volume: 43 Number: 1 Page: 82 -- 89 (2002)


Leaver HA, Bell HS, Rizzo MT, Ironside JW, Gregor A, Wharton SB, Whittle IR [*]
Antitumour and pro-apoptotic actions of highly unsaturated fatty acids in glioma
Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2002 Jan;66(1):19-29


Somasundaram S, Edmund NA, Moore DT, Small GW, Shi YY, Orlowski RZ
Dietary curcumin inhibits chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in models of human breast cancer
Cancer Res 2002 Jul 1;62(13):3868-75 



Prognosis & Outcome


Torp SH
Diagnostic and prognostic role of Ki67 immunostaining in human astrocytomas using four different antibodies
Clin Neuropathol 2002 Nov-Dec;21(6):252-7



Treatment


Boiardi A, Eoli M, Salmaggi A, Pollo B, Milanesi I, Broggi G, Silvani A
Cisplatin and BCNU chemotherapy for anaplastic oligoastrocytomas
J Neurooncol 2000 Aug;49(1):71-5

Boiardi A, Pozzi A, Salmaggi A, Eoli M, Zucchetti M, Silvani A
Safety and potential effectiveness of daunorubicin-containing liposomes in patients with advanced recurrent malignant CNS tumors

Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1999;43(2):178-9

Brandes AA, Ermani M, Turazzi S, Scelzi E, Berti F, Amista P, Rotilio A, Licata C, Fiorentino MV
Procarbazine and high-dose tamoxifen as a second-line regimen in recurrent high-grade gliomas: a phase II study

J Clin Oncol 1999 Feb;17(2):645-50

Buckner JC, Gesme D Jr, O'Fallon JR, Hammack JE, Stafford S, Brown PD, Hawkins R, Scheithauer BW, Erickson BJ, Levitt R, Shaw EG, Jenkins R
Phase II trial of procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine as initial therapy for patients with low-grade oligodendroglioma or oligoastrocytoma: efficacy and associations with chromosomal abnormalities
J Clin Oncol 2003 Jan 15;21(2):251-5

Ewesuedo RB, Ratain MJ
Topoisomerase I Inhibitors
Oncologist 1997;2(6):359-364 


K. Lamszus, W. Meyerhof, M. Westphal
Somatostatin and somatostatin receptors in the diagnosis and treatment of gliomas
Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Volume: 35 Number: 3 Page: 353 -- 364
(1997)

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