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BRAINLIFE NEWSLETTER
Volume 3, Number 7 - 11 April 2004

Volume 3
Archive


Contents


Early Detection
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Treatment

Early Detection


Fujimura M, Kumabe T, Jokura H, Shirane R, Yoshimoto T, Tominaga T
Intractable vomiting as an early clinical symptom of cerebrospinal fluid seeding to the fourth ventricle in patients with high-grade astrocytoma
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):209-16. 


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Gilhuis HJ, van der Laak J, Wesseling P, Boerman RH, Beute G, Teepen JL, Grotenhuis JA, Kappelle AC
Inverse correlation between genetic aberrations and malignancy grade in ependymal tumors: a paradox?
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):111-6. 

Steiner HH, Karcher S, Mueller MM, Nalbantis E, Kunze S, Herold-Mende C
Autocrine pathways of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in glioblastoma multiforme: clinical relevance of radiation-induced increase of VEGF levels
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):129-38. 

Joy K. Zartman, Nicholas K. Foreman, Andrew M. Donson, Julie M. Fleitz
Measurement of Tamoxifen-Induced Apoptosis in Glioblastoma by Cytometric Bead Analysis of Active Caspase-3
Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Volume 67, Issue 1-2, March - April 2004


Overall Management


Maiuri F, Colella G, D'Acunzi G, De Caro Mdel B
Malignant intracerebellar schwannoma
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):191-5. 

Shinoda J, Sakai N, Yano H, Hattori T, Ohkuma A, Sakaguchi H
Prognostic factors and therapeutic problems of primary intracranial choriocarcinoma/germ-cell tumors with high levels of HCG
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):225-40.


Treatment


Fabian Baumann, Miroslava Bjeljac, Spyros S. Kollias, Brigitta G. Baumert, Sebastian Brandner, Valentin Rousson, Yasuhiro Yonekawa, René L. Bernays
Combined Thalidomide and Temozolomide Treatment in Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme
Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 67 (1-2): 191-200, March, 2004 - April, 2004 

Chuang CC, Chang CN, Tsang NM, Wei KC, Tseng CK, Chang JT, Pai PC
Linear accelerator-based radiosurgery in the management of skull base meningiomas
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):241-9. 

Fiorillo A, Maggi G, Greco N, Migliorati R, D'Amico A, De Caro MD, Sabbatino MS, Buffardi F
Second-line chemotherapy with the association of liposomal daunorubicin, carboplatin and etoposide in children with recurrent malignant brain tumors
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):179-85. 

Linz U
Complete response of a recurrent, multicentric malignant glioma in a patient treated with phenylbutyrate
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):251; author reply 251. 

Mansur DB, Drzymala RE, Rich KM, Klein EE, Simpson JR
The efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of intracranial ependymoma
J Neurooncol. 2004 Jan;66(1-2):187-90.  

Prados MD, Yung WK, Jaeckle KA, Robins HI, Mehta MP, Fine HA, Wen PY, Cloughesy TF, Chang SM, Nicholas MK, Schiff D, Greenberg HS, Junck L, Fink KL, Hess KR, Kuhn J; North American Brain Tumor Consortium study
Phase 1 trial of irinotecan (CPT-11) in patients with recurrent malignant glioma: a North American Brain Tumor Consortium study
Neuro-oncol. 2004 Jan;6(1):44-54. 

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