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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 3 - 15 January 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Detection
Diagnosis
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Prognosis
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Detection


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Patriarche JW, Erickson BJ. 
Part 1. Automated Change Detection and Characterization in Serial MR Studies of Brain-Tumor Patients.
J Digit Imaging. 2006 Dec 28; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17216385 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Patriarche J, Erickson B. 
Part 2. Automated Change Detection and Characterization Applied to Serial MR of Brain Tumors may Detect Progression Earlier than Human Experts.
J Digit Imaging. 2006 Dec 29; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17216586 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Diagnosis


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Mandonnet E, Jbabdi S, Taillandier L, Galanaud D, Benali H, Capelle L, Duffau H. 
Preoperative estimation of residual volume for WHO grade II glioma resected with intraoperative functional mapping.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):63-9. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
PMID: 17018698 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Bajetto A, Barbieri F, Pattarozzi A, Dorcaratto A, Porcile C, Ravetti JL, Zona G, Spaziante R, Schettini G, Florio T. 
CXCR4 and SDF1 expression in human meningiomas: a proliferative role in tumoral meningothelial cells in vitro.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):3-11. Epub 2006 Nov 15.
PMID: 17108064 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Muhlisch J, Bajanowski T, Rickert CH, Roggendorf W, Wurthwein G, Jurgens H, Fruhwald MC. 
Frequent but borderline methylation of p16 (INK4a) and TIMP3 in medulloblastoma and sPNET revealed by quantitative analyses.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May;83(1):17-29. Epub 2007 Jan 6.
PMID: 17206475 [PubMed - in process]

Muhlisch J, Schwering A, Grotzer M, Vince GH, Roggendorf W, Hagemann C, Sorensen N, Rickert CH, Osada N, Jurgens H, Fruhwald MC. 
Epigenetic repression of RASSF1A but not CASP8 in supratentorial PNET (sPNET) and atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors (AT/RT) of childhood.
Oncogene. 2006 Feb 16;25(7):1111-7.
PMID: 16186793 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Shi Q, Bao S, Song L, Wu Q, Bigner DD, Hjelmeland AB, Rich JN. 
Targeting SPARC expression decreases glioma cellular survival and invasion associated with reduced activities of FAK and ILK kinases.
Oncogene. 2007 Jan 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17213807 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Stegh AH, Kim H, Bachoo RM, Forloney KL, Zhang J, Schulze H, Park K, Hannon GJ, Yuan J, Louis DN, DePinho RA, Chin L. 
Bcl2L12 inhibits post-mitochondrial apoptosis signaling in glioblastoma.
Genes Dev. 2007 Jan 1;21(1):98-111. Erratum in: Genes Dev. 2007 Feb 15;21(4):481.
PMID: 17210792 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Todaro L, Christiansen S, Varela M, Campodonico P, Pallotta MG, Lastiri J, Sacerdote de Lustig E, Bal de Kier Joffe E, Puricelli L. 
Alteration of serum and tumoral neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) isoforms in patients with brain tumors.
J Neurooncol. 2007 Jun;83(2):135-44. Epub 2007 Jan 10.
PMID: 17216340 [PubMed - in process]


Overall Management


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Ballman KV, Buckner JC, Brown PD, Giannini C, Flynn PJ, LaPlant BR, Jaeckle KA. 
The relationship between six-month progression-free survival and 12-month overall survival end points for phase II trials in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):29-38. Epub 2006 Nov 15.
PMID: 17108063 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Shamim EA, Hallett M. 
Intramedullary spinal tumor causing "belly dancer syndrome"
Mov Disord. 2007 Jan 10; [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
PMID: 17216647 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Prognosis


Kirkpatrick JP. 
Tumor hypoxia and prognosis in human gliomas.
Cancer J. 2006 Nov-Dec;12(6):451-4. No abstract available.
PMID: 17207312 [PubMed - in process]

Pallud J, Mandonnet E, Duffau H, Kujas M, Guillevin R, Galanaud D, Taillandier L, Capelle L. 
Prognostic value of initial magnetic resonance imaging growth rates for World Health Organization grade II gliomas.
Ann Neurol. 2006 Sep;60(3):380-3.
PMID: 16983683 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Psychosocial Aspects


Bosma I, Vos MJ, Heimans JJ, Taphoorn MJ, Aaronson NK, Postma TJ, van der Ploeg HM, Muller M, Vandertop WP, Slotman BJ, Klein M. 
The course of neurocognitive functioning in high-grade glioma patients.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):53-62. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
PMID: 17018697 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Treatment


Badruddoja MA, Penne K, Desjardins A, Reardon DA, Rich JN, Quinn JA, Sathornsumetee S, Friedman AH, Bigner DD, Herndon JE 2nd, Cahill A, Friedman HS, Vredenburgh JJ. 
Phase II study of Cloretazine for the treatment of adults with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):70-4. Epub 2006 Nov 15.
PMID: 17108065 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Bodell WJ, Bodell AP, Giannini DD. 
Levels and distribution of BCNU in GBM tumors following intratumoral injection of DTI-015 (BCNU-ethanol).
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):12-9. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
PMID: 17018699 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Gerber DE, Grossman SA, Zeltzman M, Parisi MA, Kleinberg L. 
The impact of thrombocytopenia from temozolomide and radiation in newly diagnosed adults with high-grade gliomas.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):47-52. Epub 2006 Nov 15.
PMID: 17108062 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Koshiishi H, Okamura T, Takahashi M, Ohtsubo Y, Azuma Y, Tamamoto F, Takahashi E, Hayashi N, Koshiishi Y. 
[Evaluation of bronchial arterial infusion (BAI) for lung cancer with brain metastasis]
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2006 Nov;33(12):1860-2. Japanese.
PMID: 17212128 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Mora J, Cruz O, Gala S, Navarro R. 
Successful treatment of childhood intramedullary spinal cord astrocytomas with irinotecan and cisplatin.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):39-46. Epub 2006 Nov 15.
PMID: 17108066 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Rojas-Marcos I, Graus F, Sanz G, Robledo A, Diaz-Espejo C. 
Hypersomnia as presenting symptom of anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis: case study.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):75-7. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
PMID: 17018696 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Yamashita Y, Krauze MT, Kawaguchi T, Noble CO, Drummond DC, Park JW, Bankiewicz KS. 
Convection-enhanced delivery of a topoisomerase I inhibitor (nanoliposomal topotecan) and a topoisomerase II inhibitor (pegylated liposomal doxorubicin) in intracranial brain tumor xenografts.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Jan;9(1):20-8. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
PMID: 17018695 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Zadeh G, Buckle C, Shannon P, Massicotte EM, Wong S, Guha A. 
Radiation induced peripheral nerve tumors: case series and review of the literature.
J Neurooncol. 2007 Jun;83(2):205-12. Epub 2007 Jan 6.
PMID: 17206473 [PubMed - in process]

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