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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 12 - 19 March 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Epidemiology & Risk Factors
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Integrative Medicine
Overall Management
Prognosis & Outcome
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Diagnosis & Evaluation


Bullitt E, Lin NU, Ewend MG, Zeng D, Winer EP, Carey LA, Smith JK. 
Tumor therapeutic response and vessel tortuosity: preliminary report in metastatic breast cancer.
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2006;9(Pt 2):561-8.
PMID: 17354817 [PubMed - in process]

Gebhart SC, Thompson RC, Mahadevan-Jansen A. 
Liquid-crystal tunable filter spectral imaging for brain tumor demarcation.
Appl Opt. 2007 Apr 1;46(10):1896-910.
PMID: 17356636 [PubMed - in process]

Jefferies S, Burton K, Jones P, Burnet N. 
Interpretation of early imaging after concurrent radiotherapy and temozolomide for glioblastoma.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S33. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359815 [PubMed - in process]

Pirotte B, Acerbi F, Lubansu A, Goldman S, Brotchi J, Levivier M. 
PET imaging in the surgical management of pediatric brain tumors.
Childs Nerv Syst. 2007 Mar 14; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17356889 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Sadeghi N, Salmon I, Decaestecker C, Levivier M, Metens T, Wikler D, Denolin V, Rorive S, Massager N, Baleriaux D, Goldman S. 
Stereotactic Comparison among Cerebral Blood Volume, Methionine Uptake, and Histopathology in Brain Glioma.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):455-61.
PMID: 17353312 [PubMed - in process]

Stadlbauer A, Nimsky C, Gruber S, Moser E, Hammen T, Engelhorn T, Buchfelder M, Ganslandt O. 
Changes in Fiber Integrity, Diffusivity, and Metabolism of the Pyramidal Tract Adjacent to Gliomas: A Quantitative Diffusion Tensor Fiber Tracking and MR Spectroscopic Imaging Study.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):462-9.
PMID: 17353313 [PubMed - in process]

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Yerli H, Agildere AM, Ozen O, Geyik E, Atalay B, Elhan AH. 
Evaluation of cerebral glioma grade by using normal side creatine as an internal reference in multi-voxel 1H-MR spectroscopy.
Diagn Interv Radiol. 2007 Mar;13(1):3-9.
PMID: 17354186 [PubMed - in process]


Epidemiology & Risk Factors


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Gombos K, Varjas T, Orsos Z, Polyak E, Peredi J, Varga Z, Nowrasteh G, Tettinger A, Mucsi G, Ember I. 
The effect of aspartame administration on oncogene and suppressor gene expressions.
In Vivo. 2007 Jan-Feb;21(1):89-92.
PMID: 17354619 [PubMed - in process]

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Hansson Mild K, Hardell L, Carlberg M. 
Pooled analysis of two Swedish case-control studies on the use of mobile and cordless telephones and the risk of brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003.
Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2007;13(1):63-71.
PMID: 17362659 [PubMed - in process]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


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Ehtesham M, Sarangi A, Valadez JG, Chanthaphaychith S, Becher MW, Abel TW, Thompson RC, Cooper MK. 
Ligand-dependent activation of the hedgehog pathway in glioma progenitor cells.
Oncogene. 2007 Mar 12; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17353902 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Elstner A, Holtkamp N, von Deimling A. 
Involvement of Hif-1 in desferrioxamine-induced invasion of glioblastoma cells.
Clin Exp Metastasis. 2007 Mar 15; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17357815 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ilzecka J, Ilzecki M. 
APRIL is increased in serum of patients with brain glioblastoma multiforme.
Eur Cytokine Netw. 2006 Dec;17(4):276-80.
PMID: 17353162 [PubMed - in process]

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James BM, Gillard JH, Antoun NM, Scott IS, Coleman N, Pinto EM, Jefferies SJ, Burnet NG. 
Glioblastoma doubling time and cellular proliferation markers.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S33. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359814 [PubMed - in process]

Lu T, Tian L, Han Y, Vogelbaum M, Stark GR. 
Dose-dependent cross-talk between the transforming growth factor-beta and interleukin-1 signaling pathways.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Mar 13;104(11):4365-70. Epub 2007 Mar 5.
PMID: 17360530 [PubMed - in process]
Mellai M, Schiffer D. 
Apoptosis in brain tumors: prognostic and therapeutic considerations.
Anticancer Res. 2007 Jan-Feb;27(1A):437-48.
PMID: 17352265 [PubMed - in process]

Mustafa DA, Bergers PC, Dekker LJ, Charif H, Titulaer M, Sillevis Smitt PA, Luider TM, Kros JM. 
Identification of glioma neovascularisation-related proteins by using MALDI-FTMS and nano-LC fractionation to microdissected tumor vessels.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2007 Mar 14; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17360931 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Palmieri D, Chambers AF, Felding-Habermann B, Huang S, Steeg PS. 
The biology of metastasis to a sanctuary site.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1656-62.
PMID: 17363518 [PubMed - in process]

Taraszewska A, Matyja E. 
Lectin binding pattern in meningiomas of various histological subtypes.
Folia Neuropathol. 2007;45(1):9-18.
PMID: 17357005 [PubMed - in process]
Zeltner L, Schittenhelm J, Mittelbronn M, Roser F, Tatagiba M, Mawrin C, Kim YJ, Bornemann A. 
The astrocytic response towards invasive meningiomas.
Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2007 Apr;33(2):163-8.
PMID: 17359357 [PubMed - in process]

Zheng X, Jiang F, Katakowski M, Kalkanis SN, Hong X, Zhang X, Zhang ZG, Yang H, Chopp M. 
Inhibition of ADAM17 reduces hypoxia-induced brain tumor cell invasiveness.
Cancer Sci. 2007 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17355261 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Zindy F, Uziel T, Ayrault O, Calabrese C, Valentine M, Rehg JE, Gilbertson RJ, Sherr CJ, Roussel MF. 
Genetic Alterations in Mouse Medulloblastomas and Generation of Tumors De novo from Primary Cerebellar Granule Neuron Precursors.
Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;67(6):2676-84.
PMID: 17363588 [PubMed - in process]


Integrative Medicine


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Tuzgen S, Hanimoglu H, Tanriverdi T, Kacira T, Sanus GZ, Atukeren P, Dashti R, Gumustas K, Canbaz B, Kaynar MY. 
Relationship between DNA damage and total antioxidant capacity in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):177-81. Epub 2006 Dec 19.
PMID: 17359903 [PubMed - in process]


Overall Management


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Aragon-Ching JB, Zujewski JA. 
CNS metastasis: an old problem in a new guise.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1644-7.
PMID: 17363516 [PubMed - in process]

Brown JL, Burton DW, Deftos LJ, Smith AA, Pincus DW, Haller MJ. 
Congenital craniopharyngioma and hypercalcemia induced by parathyroid hormone-related protein.
Endocr Pract. 2007 Jan-Feb;13(1):67-71.
PMID: 17360305 [PubMed - in process]

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Burnet NG, Pohl U, Jefferies SJ, Jones PH, Lynch AG. 
Grade III Gliomas with Imaging Appearances of Glioblastoma should be Managed as Glioblastoma.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S14-5. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359759 [PubMed - in process]

Corso JJ, Sharon E, Yuille A. 
Multilevel segmentation and integrated bayesian model classification with an application to brain tumor segmentation.
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2006;9(Pt 2):790-8.
PMID: 17354845 [PubMed - in process]

Deeken JF, Loscher W. 
The blood-brain barrier and cancer: transporters, treatment, and trojan horses.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1663-74.
PMID: 17363519 [PubMed - in process]

Erridge SC, Kerr GR, Hart M, Smith C, McNamara S, Whittle IR, Grant R, Gregor A. 
Audit of patients with glioma referred to edinburgh cancer centre 1988-2002: pathology, treatment and outcome.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S28. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359795 [PubMed - in process]

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Holtkamp M. 
The anaesthetic and intensive care of status epilepticus.
Curr Opin Neurol. 2007 Apr;20(2):188-93.
PMID: 17351490 [PubMed - in process]

Inoue T, Nishimura S, Hayashi N, Numagami Y, Midorikawa H, Shimamura N, Yajima N, Nishijima M. 
[Intracranial osteolytic hemangiopericytoma manifesting as a rapidly enlarging extracranial soft tissue mass lesion]
No Shinkei Geka. 2007 Mar;35(3):275-80. Japanese.
PMID: 17352153 [PubMed - in process]

Jain RK, Tong RT, Munn LL. 
Effect of vascular normalization by antiangiogenic therapy on interstitial hypertension, peritumor edema, and lymphatic metastasis: insights from a mathematical model.
Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;67(6):2729-35.
PMID: 17363594 [PubMed - in process]

Lin NU, Winer EP. 
Brain Metastases: The HER2 Paradigm.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1648-55.
PMID: 17363517 [PubMed - in process]

Moeller KK, Coventry S, Jernigan S, Moriarty TM. 
Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the spine.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):593-5.
PMID: 17353344 [PubMed - in process]

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Saad AG, Sachs J, Turner CD, Proctor M, Marcus KJ, Wang L, Lidov H, Ullrich NJ. 
Extracranial Metastases of Glioblastoma in a Child: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2007 Mar;29(3):190-194.
PMID: 17356401 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Sakamoto J, Sekine T. 
[Pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma with rapid and peculiar metastases; report of a case]
Kyobu Geka. 2007 Mar;60(3):253-7. Japanese.
PMID: 17352146 [PubMed - in process]

Togashi K, Hosaka Y, Saito M, Sato K, Usuda H, Emura I. 
[Thymoma transformed to thymic carcinoma with brain and bone metastases 6 years after recurrence]
Kyobu Geka. 2007 Mar;60(3):187-91. Japanese.
PMID: 17352134 [PubMed - in process]


Prognosis & Outcome


Wolff JE, Huttermann U, Askins MA. 
Quantifying health status outcomes in pediatric medulloblastoma patients.
Anticancer Res. 2007 Jan-Feb;27(1B):523-9.
PMID: 17348436 [PubMed - in process]


Psychosocial Aspects


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Mayer M. 
A patient perspective on brain metastases in breast cancer.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1623-4. No abstract available.
PMID: 17363511 [PubMed - in process]

[No authors listed] 
Rehabilitation after brain cancer surgery.
J Support Oncol. 2007 Feb;5(2):93. No abstract available.
PMID: 17348372 [PubMed - in process]


Treatment


Foweraker KL, Chantler HJ, Geater AR, Burton KE, Jena R, Jefferies SJ, Burnet NJ. 
Conformal versus IMRT for Chordoma of the Skull Base and Cervical Spine.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S28-9. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359797 [PubMed - in process]

Foweraker KL, Burton KE, Jena R, Jefferies SJ, Burnet. 
High dose photon radiotherapy in the management of chordoma and chondrosarcoma of the skull base and cervical spine.
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Apr;19(3):S28. No abstract available.
PMID: 17359796 [PubMed - in process]

Gao X, Deeb D, Jiang H, Liu Y, Dulchavsky SA, Gautam SC. 
Synthetic triterpenoids inhibit growth and induce apoptosis in human glioblastoma and neuroblastoma cells through inhibition of prosurvival Akt, NF-kappaB and Notch1 signaling.
J Neurooncol. 2007 Mar 15; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17361329 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Hu J, Yuan X, Ko MK, Yin D, Sacapano MR, Wang X, Konda BM, Espinoza A, Prosolovich K, Ong JM, Irvin D, Black KL. 
Calcium-activated potassium channels mediated blood-brain tumor barrier opening in a rat metastatic brain tumor model.
Mol Cancer. 2007 Mar 14;6:22.
PMID: 17359538 [PubMed - in process]
Hughes J. 
Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) and the birth of English neurosurgery.
J Med Biogr. 2007 Feb;15(1):45-52.
PMID: 17356729 [PubMed - in process]

Noguchi M, Aoki E, Yoshida D, Kobayashi E, Omori S, Muragaki Y, Iseki H, Nakamura K, Sakuma I. 
A novel robotic laser ablation system for precision neurosurgery with intraoperative 5-ALA-induced PpIX fluorescence detection.
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2006;9(Pt 1):543-50.
PMID: 17354933 [PubMed - in process]

Patel RR, Mehta MP. 
Targeted therapy for brain metastases: improving the therapeutic ratio.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar 15;13(6):1675-83.
PMID: 17363520 [PubMed - in process]

Pilo de la Fuente B, Dalmau J, Rosenfeld M. 
[Glioma therapy up-date.]
Neurologia. 2007 Apr;22(3):159-69. Spanish.
PMID: 17364254 [PubMed - in process]

Samlowski WE, Watson GA, Wang M, Rao G, Klimo P Jr, Boucher K, Shrieve DC, Jensen RL. 
Multimodality treatment of melanoma brain metastases incorporating stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
Cancer. 2007 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17351953 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Wu CW, Ping YH, Yen JC, Chang CY, Wang SF, Yeh CL, Chi CW, Lee HC. 
Enhanced oxidative stress and aberrant mitochondrial biogenesis in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells during methamphetamine induced apoptosis.
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2007 Feb 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17350664 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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