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BRAINLIFE NEWSLETTER
Volume 3, Number 5 - 4 March 2004

Volume 3
Archive


Contents


Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Prognosis & Outcome
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Etiology & Pathogenesis


Nader Sanai, Anthony D. Tramontin, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Nicholas M. Barbaro, Nalin Gupta, Sandeep Kunwar, Michael T. Lawton, Michael W. McDermott, Andrei T. Parsa, José Manuel-García Verdugo, Mitchel S. Berger, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Unique astrocyte ribbon in adult human brain contains neural stem cells but lacks chain migration
Nature 427, 740 - 744 (19 February 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02301  


Overall Management


Kellie SJ, Boyce H, Dunkel IJ, Diez B, Rosenblum M, Brualdi L, Finlay JL
Primary chemotherapy for intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumors: results of the second international CNS germ cell study group protocol
J Clin Oncol. 2004 Mar 1;22(5):846-53. 

Timothy P. Padera, Brian R. Stoll, Jessica B. Tooredman, Diane Capen, Emmanuelle Di Tomaso & Rakesh K. Jain
Pathology: Cancer cells compress intratumour vessels
Nature 427, 695 (19 February 2004); doi:10.1038/427695a 


Prognosis & Outcome


Davis FG, McCarthy BJ, Freels S, Kupelian V, Bondy ML
The conditional probability of survival of patients with primary malignant brain tumors: surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) data
Cancer. 1999 Jan 15;85(2):485-91. 

Hwang SL, Yang YH, Lieu AS, Chuang MC, Chang SJ, Chang YY, Lin HJ, Howng SL
The conditional survival statistics for survivors with primary supratentorial astrocytic tumors
J Neurooncol. 2000 Dec;50(3):257-64.  

Kraus JA, Wenghoefer M, Schmidt MC, von Deimling A, Berweiler U, Roggendorf W, Diete S, Dietzmann K, Muller B, Heuser K, Reifenberger G, Schlegel U
Long-term survival of glioblastoma multiforme: importance of histopathological reevaluation
J Neurol. 2000 Jun;247(6):455-60.

Lin CL, Lieu AS, Lee KS, Yang YH, Kuo TH, Hung MH, Loh JK, Yen CP, Chang CZ, Howng SL, Hwang SL
The conditional probabilities of survival in patients with anaplastic astrocytoma or glioblastoma multiforme
Surg Neurol. 2003 Nov;60(5):402-6


Psychosocial Aspects


Postma TJ, Klein M, Verstappen CC, Bromberg JE, Swennen M, Langendijk JA, Taphoorn MJ, Scheltens P, Slotman BJ, van der Ploeg HM, Aaronson NK, Heimans JJ
Radiotherapy-induced cerebral abnormalities in patients with low-grade glioma

Taphoorn MJ, Klein M
Cognitive deficits in adult patients with brain tumours
Lancet Neurol. 2004 Mar 1;3(3):159-168.  

Taphoorn MJ
Neurocognitive sequelae in the treatment of low-grade gliomas


Treatment


Menei P, Jadaud E, Faisant N, Boisdron-Celle M, Michalak S, Fournier D, Delhaye M, Benoit JP
Stereotaxic implantation of 5-fluorouracil-releasing microspheres in malignant glioma

Maria Piribauer, Thomas Czech, Karin Dieckmann, Peter Birner, Johannes A. Hainfellner, Daniela Prayer, Barbara Fazeny-Dörner, Georg Weinländer and Christine Marosi
Stabilization of a progressive hemangioblastoma under treatment with thalidomide
Journal of Neuro-Oncology 66: 295–299, February 2004. 

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