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BRAINLIFE NEWSLETTER
Volume 3, Number 26 - 10 July 2004

Volume 3
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Overall Management
Prognosis & Outcome
Treatment

Diagnosis & Evaluation


Hormigo A, Liberato B, Lis E, DeAngelis LM
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in patients with cancer: imaging abnormalities
Arch Neurol. 2004 Mar;61(3):362-5.  


Overall Management


Basso U, Monfardini S, Brandes AA
Recommendations for the management of malignant gliomas in the elderly
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2003 Oct;3(5):643-54. 

Halperin EC
Malignant gliomas in older adults with poor prognostic signs. Getting nowhere, and taking a long time to do it
Oncology (Huntingt). 1995 Mar;9(3):229-34; discussion 237-8, 243.

Korshunov A, Golanov A, Sycheva R, Timirgaz V
The histologic grade is a main prognostic factor for patients with intracranial ependymomas treated in the microneurosurgical era: an analysis of 258 patients
Cancer. 2004 Mar 15;100(6):1230-7.

Jawahar A, Ampil F, Wielbaecher C, Hartman GH, Zhang JH, Nanda A
Management strategies for patients with brain metastases: has radiosurgery made a difference?
South Med J. 2004 Mar;97(3):254-8. 

Vuorinen V, Hinkka S, Farkkila M, Jaaskelainen J
Debulking or biopsy of malignant glioma in elderly people - a randomised study
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2003 Jan;145(1):5-10. 


Prognosis & Outcome


WJ Curran Jr, CB Scott, J Horton, JS Nelson, AS Weinstein, AJ Fischbach, CH Chang, M Rotman, SO Asbell and RE Krisch
Recursive partitioning analysis of prognostic factors in three Radiation Therapy Oncology Group malignant glioma trials
Journal Of The National Cancer Institute, Volume 85, Issue 9 : May 5, 1993, 704-710. 

Duffau H, Khalil I, Gatignol P, Denvil D, Capelle L
Surgical removal of corpus callosum infiltrated by low-grade glioma: functional outcome and oncological considerations
J Neurosurg. 2004 Mar;100(3):431-7. 

Keles GE, Lundin DA, Lamborn KR, Chang EF, Ojemann G, Berger MS
Intraoperative subcortical stimulation mapping for hemispherical perirolandic gliomas located within or adjacent to the descending motor pathways: evaluation of morbidity and assessment of functional outcome in 294 patients
J Neurosurg. 2004 Mar;100(3):369-75. 

Laws ER, Parney IF, Huang W, Anderson F, Morris AM, Asher A, Lillehei KO, Bernstein M, Brem H, Sloan A, Berger MS, Chang S; Glioma Outcomes Investigators
Survival following surgery and prognostic factors for recently diagnosed malignant glioma: data from the Glioma Outcomes Project
J Neurosurg. 2003 Sep;99(3):467-73.

Muacevic A, Kreth FW
Quality-adjusted survival after tumor resection and/or radiation therapy for elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme
J Neurol. 2003 May;250(5):561-8. 

Simpson JR, Horton J, Scott C, Curran WJ, Rubin P, Fischbach J, Isaacson S, Rotman M, Asbell SO, Nelson JS, et al
Influence of location and extent of surgical resection on survival of patients with glioblastoma multiforme: results of three consecutive Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) clinical trials
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1993 May 20;26(2):239-44.


Treatment


Hau P, Fabel K, Baumgart U, Rummele P, Grauer O, Bock A, Dietmaier C, Dietmaier W, Dietrich J, Dudel C, Hubner F, Jauch T, Drechsel E, Kleiter I, Wismeth C, Zellner A, Brawanski A, Steinbrecher A, Marienhagen J, Bogdahn U
Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin-efficacy in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma
Cancer. 2004 Mar 15;100(6):1199-207. 

W. Roa, P.M.A. Brasher, G. Bauman, M. Anthes, E. Bruera, A. Chan, B. Fisher, D. Fulton, S. Gulavita, C. Hao, S. Husain, A. Murtha, K. Petruk, D. Stewart, P. Tai, R. Urtasun, J.G. Cairncross, P. Forsyth
Abbreviated Course of Radiation Therapy in Older Patients With Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 22, No 9 (May 1), 2004: pp. 1583-1588. 

Edward G. Shaw
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme in the Elderly
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 22, No 9 (May 1), 2004: pp. 1540-1541

Stewart LA
Chemotherapy in adult high-grade glioma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data from 12 randomised trials
Lancet. 2002 Mar 23;359(9311):1011-8. 

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