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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 8 - 19 February 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Integrative Medicine
Overall Management
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Diagnosis & Evaluation


Bhattacharya P, Chekmenev EY, Perman WH, Harris KC, Lin AP, Norton VA, Tan CT, Ross BD, Weitekamp DP.
Towards hyperpolarized (13)C-succinate imaging of brain cancer.
J Magn Reson. 2007 May;186(1):150-5. Epub 2007 Jan 30.
PMID: 17303454 [PubMed - in process]

Cianfoni A, Niku S, Imbesi SG.
Metabolite findings in tumefactive demyelinating lesions utilizing short echo time proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Feb;28(2):272-7.
PMID: 17296993 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Griffin JL, Kauppinen RA.
A metabolomics perspective of human brain tumours.
FEBS J. 2007 Mar;274(5):1132-9. Review.
PMID: 17298437 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Haroon HA, Patankar TF, Zhu XP, Li KL, Thacker NA, Scott MJ, Jackson A.
Comparison of cerebral blood volume maps generated from T2* and T1 weighted MRI data in intra-axial cerebral tumours.
Br J Radiol. 2007 Mar;80(951):161-8. Epub 2007 Feb 15.
PMID: 17303617 [PubMed - in process]

Kubota K, Yukihiro M, Ito K.
[Perspective for imaging of tumor metabolism]
Nippon Rinsho. 2007 Feb;65(2):352-6. Review. Japanese.
PMID: 17302283 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Matsumoto M, Kodama N, Endo Y, Sakuma J, Suzuki K, Sasaki T, Murakami K, Suzuki K, Katakura T, Shishido F.
Dynamic 3D-CT angiography.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Feb;28(2):299-304.
PMID: 17296999 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Schiepers C, Chen W, Dahlbom M, Cloughesy T, Hoh CK, Huang SC.
(18)F-fluorothymidine kinetics of malignant brain tumors.
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007 Jul;34(7):1003-11. Epub 2007 Feb 13.
PMID: 17295039 [PubMed - in process]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


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Charalambous C, Virrey J, Kardosh A, Jabbour MN, Qazi-Abdullah L, Pen L, Zidovetzki R, Schonthal AH, Chen TC, Hofman FM.
Glioma-associated endothelial cells show evidence of replicative senescence.
Exp Cell Res. 2007 Apr 1;313(6):1192-202. Epub 2007 Jan 12.
PMID: 17291495 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Levin VA.
Are gliomas preventable?
Recent Results Cancer Res. 2007;174:205-15. Review.
PMID: 17302198 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Ligon KL, Huillard E, Mehta S, Kesari S, Liu H, Alberta JA, Bachoo RM, Kane M, Louis DN, Depinho RA, Anderson DJ, Stiles CD, Rowitch DH.
Olig2-regulated lineage-restricted pathway controls replication competence in neural stem cells and malignant glioma.
Neuron. 2007 Feb 15;53(4):503-17.
PMID: 17296553 [PubMed - in process]

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Mareel M, Madani I. 
Tumour-associated host cells participating at invasion and metastasis : targets for therapy?
Acta Chir Belg. 2006 Nov-Dec;106(6):635-40. Review.
PMID: 17290685 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Vukelic Z, Kalanj-Bognar S, Froesch M, Bindila L, Radic B, Allen M, Peter-Katalinic J, Zamfir AD.
Human gliosarcoma-associated ganglioside composition is complex and distinctive as evidenced by high-performance mass spectrometric determination and structural characterization.
Glycobiology. 2007 May;17(5):504-15. Epub 2007 Feb 9.
PMID: 17293353 [PubMed - in process]


Integrative Medicine


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Cheng TJ, Wang YJ, Kao WW, Chen RJ, Ho YS.
Protection against arsenic trioxide-induced autophagic cell death in U118 human glioma cells by use of lipoic acid.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2007 Jun;45(6):1027-38. Epub 2007 Jan 3.
PMID: 17300860 [PubMed - in process]

Jiang J, Wang W, Sun YJ, Hu M, Li F, Zhu DY.
Neuroprotective effect of curcumin on focal cerebral ischemic rats by preventing blood-brain barrier damage.
Eur J Pharmacol. 2007 Apr 30;561(1-3):54-62. Epub 2007 Jan 19.
PMID: 17303117 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Overall Management


Chura JC, Shukla K, Argenta PA.
Brain metastasis from cervical carcinoma.
Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2007 Jan-Feb;17(1):141-6.
PMID: 17291245 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Kaen A, Arrese I, Lagares A, Cabello A, Lobato RD. 
Haemangiopericytoma presenting with acute intracerebral haemorrhage.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2007 Apr;149(4):415-8. Epub 2007 Feb 12.
PMID: 17294344 [PubMed - in process]

Lin LM, Sciubba DM, Gallia GL, Sosnowski J, Weingart JD.
Diethylstilbestrol (DES)-induced clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina metastasizing to the brain.
Gynecol Oncol. 2007 Apr;105(1):273-6. Epub 2007 Feb 8.
PMID: 17292458 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Takei H, Florez L, Moroz K, Bhattacharjee MB.
Medulloepithelioma: Two unusual locations.
Pathol Int. 2007 Feb;57(2):91-5.
PMID: 17300673 [PubMed - in process]

Xu J, Rasmussen IA, Berntsen EM, Moss K, Shnier R, Lagopoulos J, Malhi GS.
A growth in bipolar disorder?
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2007 Mar;115(3):246-50; discussion 250.
PMID: 17302626 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Psychosocial Aspects


Linet MS, Byrne J, Willis GB, Wacholder S, Forman MR.
Maternal sensitivity concerning aetiological research into childhood cancer: results of preliminary focus groups.
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2007 Mar;21(2):169-78.
PMID: 17302647 [PubMed - in process]


Treatment


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Gupta DK, Chandra PS, Ojha BK, Sharma BS, Mahapatra AK, Mehta VS. 
Awake craniotomy versus surgery under general anesthesia for resection of intrinsic lesions of eloquent cortex--a prospective randomised study.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2007 May;109(4):335-43. Epub 2007 Feb 14.
PMID: 17303322 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Kiewe P, Loddenkemper C, Anagnostopoulos I, Reinwald M, Thiel E, Korfel A.
High-dose methotrexate is beneficial in parenchymal brain masses of uncertain origin suspicious for primary CNS lymphoma.
Neuro Oncol. 2007 Apr;9(2):96-102. Epub 2007 Feb 14.
PMID: 17301290 [PubMed - in process]

Pollack IF, Jakacki RI, Blaney SM, Hancock ML, Kieran MW, Phillips P, Kun LE, Friedman H, Packer R, Banerjee A, Geyer JR, Goldman S, Poussaint TY, Krasin MJ, Wang Y, Hayes M, Murgo A, Weiner S, Boyett JM.
Phase I trial of imatinib in children with newly diagnosed brainstem and recurrent malignant gliomas: a Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium report.
Neuro Oncol. 2007 Apr;9(2):145-60. Epub 2007 Feb 9.
PMID: 17293590 [PubMed - in process]

Sampson JH, Brady ML, Petry NA, Croteau D, Friedman AH, Friedman HS, Wong T, Bigner DD, Pastan I, Puri RK, Pedain C.
Intracerebral infusate distribution by convection-enhanced delivery in humans with malignant gliomas: descriptive effects of target anatomy and catheter positioning.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Feb;60(2 Suppl 1):ONS89-98; discussion ONS98-9.
PMID: 17297371 [PubMed - in process]

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