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BRAINLIFE NEWSLETTER
Volume 3, Number 2 - 13 January 2004

Volume 3
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Diagnosis & Evaluation


Lichy MP, Bachert P, Henze M, Lichy CM, Debus J, Schlemmer HP
Monitoring individual response to brain-tumour chemotherapy: proton MR spectroscopy in a patient with recurrent glioma after stereotactic radiotherapy
Neuroradiology. 2003 Dec 18 [Epub ahead of print]


Minutoli F, Angileri FF, Cosentino S, Pecorella GR, Cardali S, De Divitiis O, Germano A, Baldari S
99mTc-MIBI SPECT in distinguishing neoplastic from nonneoplastic intracerebral hematoma
J Nucl Med. 2003 Oct;44(10):1566-73

M. Weyl Ben Arush, M. Haimi, M. Peretz Nahum, H.F. Rennert, K. Katz
Delay in diagnosis of children with cancer: a retrospective study of 315 children
ECCO 12 - the European Cancer Conference Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-25 September 2003. Abstract No. 640
European Journal of Cancer Supplements; Vol. 1, No. 5, September 2003, page S192


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Altura RA, Olshefski RS, Jiang Y, Boue DR
Nuclear expression of Survivin in paediatric ependymomas and choroid plexus tumours correlates with morphologic tumour grade
Br J Cancer. 2003 Nov 3;89(9):1743-9

Amy S. Arrington, Connie Wong, Regis A. Vilchez, Janet S. Butel
SV40 vertical transmission and pathogenesis in Syrian Golden hamsters
Proceedings of the AACR, Volume 44, 2nd ed., July 2003, Abstract No. 6136

Christiana Charalambous, Johanna Milan, Ligaya Pen, Florence Hofman, and Thomas Chen
The role of IL-8 in the regulation of normal and tumor-derived human brain endothelial cells
Society for Neuro-Oncology Eighth Annual Meeting. Keystone, Colorado. November 13–16, 2003. Abstract No. AN-06.
Neuro-Oncology, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 2003


Giulia Fulci, Nobuaki Ishii, Daniela Maurici, Kim M. Gernert, Pierre Hainaut and Erwin G. Van Meir
Genetic evidence for a precursor lesion to astrocytoma WHO grade II in a patient with a germline TP53 mutation and astrocytoma progression
Proc. Int. Symp. “New Treatments for Brain Tumors: Gene Therapy and Neural Stem Cells”. Parma, Italy, October 17-20, 2001. Abstract No. O-3


Overall Management


McBryde CW, Hamid NA, Mitchell RD
Anaplastic oligodendroglioma with metastasis to the spinal cord
Br J Neurosurg.
2003 Aug;17(4):364-6


Psychosocial Aspects


Pahlson A, Ek L, Ahlstrom G, Smits A
Pitfalls in the assessment of disability in individuals with low-grade gliomas
J Neurooncol. 2003 Nov;65(2):149-58

Klein M, Postma TJ, Taphoorn MJ, Aaronson NK, Vandertop WP, Muller M, Van Der Ploeg HM, Heimans JJ
The prognostic value of cognitive functioning in the survival of patients with high-grade glioma
Neurology. 2003 Dec 23;61(12):1796-8



Treatment


Barth RF, Grecula JC, Yang W, Rotaru JH, Nawrocky M, Gupta N, Albertson BJ, Ferketich AK, Moeschberger ML, Coderre JA, Rofstad EK
Combination of boron neutron capture therapy and external beam radiotherapy for brain tumors
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Jan 1;58(1):267-77


Cannady SB, Cavanaugh KA, Lee SY, Bukowski RM, Olencki TE, Stevens GH, Barnett GH, Suh JH
Results of whole brain radiotherapy and recursive partitioning analysis in patients with brain metastases from renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective study
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Jan 1;58(1):253-8

Friese MA, Platten M, Lutz SZ, Naumann U, Aulwurm S, Bischof F, Buhring HJ, Dichgans J, Rammensee HG, Steinle A, Weller M
MICA/NKG2D-mediated immunogene therapy of experimental gliomas
Cancer Res. 2003 Dec 15;63(24):8996-9006

Lesimple T, Hassel MB, Gedouin D, Seigneuret E, Carsin B, Hamlat A, Riffaud L, Simon H, Malhaire JP, Guegan Y
Phase I study of topotecan in combination with concurrent radiotherapy in adults with glioblastoma
J Neurooncol. 2003 Nov;65(2):141-8

Morioka J, Kajiwara K, Yoshikawa K, Ideguchi M, Uchida T, Suzuki M
Vaccine therapy for murine glioma using tumor cells genetically modified to express b7.1
Neurosurgery. 2004 Jan;54(1):182-90

Snowden AW, Zhang L, Urnov F, Dent C, Jouvenot Y, Zhong X, Rebar EJ, Jamieson AC, Zhang HS, Tan S, Case CC, Pabo CO, Wolffe AP, Gregory PD
Repression of vascular endothelial growth factor A in glioblastoma cells using engineered zinc finger transcription factors
Cancer Res. 2003 Dec 15;63(24):8968-76

Sultanem K, Patrocinio H, Lambert C, Corns R, Leblanc R, Parker W, Shenouda G, Souhami L
The use of hypofractionated intensity-modulated irradiation in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme: preliminary results of a prospective trial
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Jan 1;58(1):247-52

Ware ML, Larson DA, Sneed PK, Wara WW, McDermott MW
Surgical resection and permanent brachytherapy for recurrent atypical and malignant meningioma
Neurosurgery. 2004 Jan;54(1):55-64

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