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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 24 - 11 June 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Epidemiology & Risk Factors
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Prognosis & Outcome
Treatment
Children's Corner

Diagnosis & Evaluation


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Bradbury MS, Tomishima M, Panagiotakos G, Chan BK, Zanzonico P, Vider J, Ponomarev V, Studer L, Tabar V. 
Optical bioluminescence imaging of human ES cell progeny in the rodent CNS.
J Neurochem. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17555555 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Conway JJ. 
Quo vadis pediatric nuclear medicine.
Semin Nucl Med. 2007 Jul;37(4):242-8.
PMID: 17544624 [PubMed - in process]

Majumder SK, Gebhart S, Johnson MD, Thompson R, Lin WC, Mahadevan-Jansen A. 
A probability-based spectroscopic diagnostic algorithm for simultaneous discrimination of brain tumor and tumor margins from normal brain tissue.
Appl Spectrosc. 2007 May;61(5):548-57.
PMID: 17555625 [PubMed - in process]

Nagar VA, Ye J, Xu M, Ng WH, Yeo TT, Ong PL, Lim CC. 
Multivoxel MR Spectroscopic Imaging - Distinguishing Intracranial Tumours from Non-neoplastic Disease.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):309-5.
PMID: 17549275 [PubMed - in process]
Nakamura H, Takeshima H, Makino K, Kuratsu J. 
Evaluation of residual tissues after adjuvant therapy in germ cell tumors.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):82-91.
PMID: 17337917 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Qiu D, Kwong DL, Chan GC, Leung LH, Khong PL. 
Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finding of Discrepant Fractional Anisotropy Between the Frontal and Parietal Lobes After Whole-brain Irradiation in Childhood Medulloblastoma Survivors: Reflection of Regional White Matter Radiosensitivity?
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Jun 1; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17544593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Tsiouris S, Pirmettis I, Chatzipanagiotou T, Ptohis N, Papantoniou V. 
Pentavalent technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid [(99m)Tc-(V)DMSA] brain scintitomography-a plausible non-invasive depicter of glioblastoma proliferation and therapy response.
J Neurooncol. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17554495 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Epidemiology & Risk Factors


Guidotti TL. 
Evaluating causality for occupational cancers: the example of firefighters.
Occup Med (Lond). 2007 Jun 4; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17548868 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ha M, Im H, Lee M, Kim HJ, Kim BC, Gimm YM, Pack JK. 
Radio-Frequency Radiation Exposure from AM Radio Transmitters and Childhood Leukemia and Brain Cancer.
Am J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17556764 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Anderson RC, Anderson DE, Elder JB, Brown MD, Mandigo CE, Parsa AT, Goodman RR, McKhann GM, Sisti MB, Bruce JN. 
Lack of B7 expression, not human leukocyte antigen expression, facilitates immune evasion by human malignant gliomas.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun;60(6):1129-36; discussion 1136.
PMID: 17538388 [PubMed - in process]

Auclair J, Leroux D, Desseigne F, Lasset C, Saurin JC, Joly MO, Pinson S, Xu XL, Montmain G, Ruano E, Navarro C, Puisieux A, Wang Q. 
Novel biallelic mutations in MSH6 and PMS2 genes: gene conversion as a likely cause of PMS2 gene inactivation.
Hum Mutat. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17557300 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Beckner ME, Jane EP, Jankowitz B, Agostino NR, Walter KA, Hamilton RL, Pollack IF. 
Tumor cells from ultrasonic aspirations of glioblastomas migrate and form spheres with radial outgrowth.
Cancer Lett. 2007 May 30; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17543444 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Bobola MS, Blank A, Berger MS, Silber JR. 
O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase deficiency in developing brain: Implications for brain tumorigenesis.
DNA Repair (Amst). 2007 May 11; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17500046 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Bobola MS, Silber JR, Ellenbogen RG, Geyer JR, Blank A, Goff RD. 
O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, O6-benzylguanine, and resistance to clinical alkylators in pediatric primary brain tumor cell lines.
Clin Cancer Res. 2005 Apr 1;11(7):2747-55.
PMID: 15814657 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Bond HM, Mesuraca M, Amodio N, Mega T, Agosti V, Fanello D, Pelaggi D, Bullinger L, Grieco M, Moore MA, Venuta S, Morrone G. 
Early hematopoietic zinc finger protein-zinc finger protein 521: A candidate regulator of diverse immature cells.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2007 Apr 21; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17543573 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

de Bont JM, den Boer ML, Kros JM, Passier MM, Reddingius RE, Smitt PA, Luider TM, Pieters R. 
Identification of Novel Biomarkers in Pediatric Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors and Ependymomas by Proteome-Wide Analysis.
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;66(6):505-516.
PMID: 17549010 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Garcia-Morales P, Carrasco-Garcia E, Ruiz-Rico P, Martinez-Mira R, Menendez-Gutierrez MP, Ferragut JA, Saceda M, Martinez-Lacaci I. 
Inhibition of Hsp90 function by ansamycins causes downregulation of cdc2 and cdc25c and G(2)/M arrest in glioblastoma cell lines.
Oncogene. 2007 May 21; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17525741 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Gerstner ER, Fine RL. 
Increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier to chemotherapy in metastatic brain tumors: establishing a treatment paradigm.
J Clin Oncol. 2007 Jun 1;25(16):2306-12.
PMID: 17538177 [PubMed - in process]

Giller CA, Berger BD, Fink K, Bastian E. 
A volumetric study of CyberKnife hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy as salvage for progressive malignant brain tumors: initial experience.
Neurol Res. 2007 Feb 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17535568 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ketter R, Urbschat S, Henn W, Feiden W, Beerenwinkel N, Lengauer T, Steudel WI, Zang KD, Rahnenfuhrer J. 
Application of oncogenetic trees mixtures as a biostatistical model of the clonal cytogenetic evolution of meningiomas.
Int J Cancer. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17557299 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Kim SH, Lee KG, Kim TS. 
Cytologic characteristics of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma in squash smears: morphometric comparisons with gemistocytic astrocytoma and giant cell glioblastoma.
Acta Cytol. 2007 May-Jun;51(3):375-9.
PMID: 17536538 [PubMed - in process]

Laggner U, Pipp I, Budka H, Hainfellner JA, Preusser M. 
Immunohistochemical detection of class III beta-tubulin in primary brain tumours: variable expression in most tumour types limits utility as a differential diagnostic marker.
Histopathology. 2007 Jun;50(7):949-52. No abstract available.
PMID: 17543088 [PubMed - in process]

Le Scodan R, Massard C, Mouret-Fourme E, Guinebretierre JM, Cohen-Solal C, De Lalande B, Moisson P, Breton-Callu C, Gardner M, Goupil A, Renody N, Floiras JL, Labib A. 
Brain Metastases from Breast Carcinoma: Validation of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Recursive Partitioning Analysis Classification and Proposition of a New Prognostic Score.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Jun 1; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17544592 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Marchetti D, Mrak RE, Paulsen DD, Sinnappah-Kang ND. 
Neurotrophin receptors and heparanase: a functional axis in human medulloblastoma invasion.
J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar;26(1):5-23.
PMID: 17550129 [PubMed - in process]

McCall TD, Pedone CA, Fults DW. 
Apoptosis suppression by somatic cell transfer of bcl-2 promotes sonic hedgehog-dependent medulloblastoma formation in mice.
Cancer Res. 2007 Jun 1;67(11):5179-85.
PMID: 17545597 [PubMed - in process]

McCoy E, Sontheimer H. 
Expression and function of water channels (aquaporins) in migrating malignant astrocytes.
Glia. 2007 Jun 4; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17549682 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Nelson PT, Keller JN. 
RNA in brain disease: no longer just "the messenger in the middle".
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;66(6):461-8.
PMID: 17549006 [PubMed - in process]

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Pelloski CE, Ballman KV, Furth AF, Zhang L, Lin E, Sulman EP, Bhat K, McDonald JM, Yung WK, Colman H, Woo SY, Heimberger AB, Suki D, Prados MD, Chang SM, Barker FG 2nd, Buckner JC, James CD, Aldape K. 
Epidermal growth factor receptor variant III status defines clinically distinct subtypes of glioblastoma.
J Clin Oncol. 2007 Jun 1;25(16):2288-94.
PMID: 17538175 [PubMed - in process]

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Quinones-Hinojosa A, Chaichana K. 
The human subventricular zone: A source of new cells and a potential source of brain tumors.
Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;205(2):313-24. Epub 2007 Mar 23.
PMID: 17459377 [PubMed - in process]

Raffaghello L, Nozza P, Morandi F, Camoriano M, Wang X, Garre ML, Cama A, Basso G, Ferrone S, Gambini C, Pistoia V. 
Expression and functional analysis of human leukocyte antigen class I antigen-processing machinery in medulloblastoma.
Cancer Res. 2007 Jun 1;67(11):5471-8.
PMID: 17545629 [PubMed - in process]

Rousseau J, Boudou C, Esteve F, Elleaume H. 
Convection-enhanced delivery of an iodine tracer into rat brain for synchrotron stereotactic radiotherapy.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Jul 1;68(3):943-51.
PMID: 17544004 [PubMed - in process]

Smith ER, Manfredi M, Scott RM, Black PM, Moses MA. 
A recurrent craniopharyngioma illustrates the potential usefulness of urinary matrix metalloproteinases as noninvasive biomarkers: case report.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun;60(6):E1148-9; discussion E1149.
PMID: 17538362 [PubMed - in process]

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Strojnik T, Rosland GV, Sakariassen PO, Kavalar R, Lah T. 
Neural stem cell markers, nestin, and musashi proteins in the progression of human glioma: correlation of nestin with prognosis of patient survival.
Surg Neurol. 2007 May 28; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17537489 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Tang C, Chua CL, Ang BT. 
Insights into the cancer stem cell model of glioma tumorigenesis.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):352-6.
PMID: 17549283 [PubMed - in process]

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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 - indexed for MEDLINE]


Overall Management


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Back MF, Ang EL, Ng WH, See SJ, Lim CC, Tay LL, Yeo TT. 
Improvements in Quality of Care Resulting From a Formal Multidisciplinary Tumour Clinic in the Management of High-grade Glioma.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):347-5.
PMID: 17549282 [PubMed - in process]

Carvi MN. 
Volume assessment of intracranial large meningiomas and considerations about their microsurgical and clinical management.
Neurol Res. 2007 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17553216 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Chan MY, Teo WY, Seow WT, Tan AM. 
Epidemiology, management and treatment outcome of medulloblastoma in singapore.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):314-5.
PMID: 17549276 [PubMed - in process]

Desmurget M, Bonnetblanc F, Duffau H. 
Contrasting acute and slow-growing lesions: a new door to brain plasticity.
Brain. 2007 Apr;130(Pt 4):898-914. Epub 2006 Nov 21. Review.
PMID: 17121742 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Fox J, Kleinberg L. 
Evolving management of newly diagnosed brain metastases: expanding role of radiosurgery in lieu of whole brain radiation.
Future Oncol. 2007 Jun;3(3):285-293.
PMID: 17547523 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Hirunwiwatkul P, Trobe JD, Blaivas M. 
Lymphoplasmacyte-rich meningioma mimicking idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis.
J Neuroophthalmol. 2007 Jun;27(2):91-4.
PMID: 17548990 [PubMed - in process]

Hosler MR, Turbin RE, Cho ES, Wolansky LJ, Frohman LP. 
Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis mimicking lymphoplasmacyte-rich meningioma.
J Neuroophthalmol. 2007 Jun;27(2):95-8.
PMID: 17548991 [PubMed - in process]

Karikari IO, Selznick LA, Cummings TJ, George TM. 
Spinal capillary hemangioma in infants: report of two cases and review of the literature.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):125-9. Review.
PMID: 17337925 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Khan MA, Hashmi S. 
Low-grade astrocytoma causing calvarial scalloping.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):155-7.
PMID: 17337932 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Ku GY, Krol G, Ilson DH. 
Successful treatment of leptomeningeal disease in colorectal cancer with a regimen of bevacizumab, temozolomide, and irinotecan.
J Clin Oncol. 2007 May 1;25(13):e14-6. No abstract available.
PMID: 17470852 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Natarajan SK, Sekhar LN, Schessel D, Morita A. 
Petroclival meningiomas: multimodality treatment and outcomes at long-term follow-up.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun;60(6):965-79; discussion 979-81.
PMID: 17538370 [PubMed - in process]

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Ng WH, See SJ. 
Neuro-oncology at the Crossroads.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):307-2. No abstract available.
PMID: 17549274 [PubMed - in process]
Rovin RA, Winn R. Expression of O6-methylguanine-deoxyribose nucleic acid methyltransferase and temozolomide response in a patient with a malignant spinal cord astrocytoma. Case report.
J Neurosurg Spine. 2007 May;6(5):447-50.
PMID: 17542512 [PubMed - in process]
Sasani M, Oktenoglu T, Ozer AF, Sarioglu AC. 
Giant supratentorial atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor presentation: a case of a five-year-old child with favorable outcome and review of the literature.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):149-54. Review.
PMID: 17337931 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

See JJ, Lew TW, Kwek TK, Chin KJ, Wong MF, Liew QY, Lim SH, Ho HS, Chan Y, Loke GP, Yeo VS. 
Anaesthetic management of awake craniotomy for tumour resection.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):319-7.
PMID: 17549277 [PubMed - in process]
Spengos K, Vassilopoulou S, Tsivgoulis G, Karachalios G, Vassilopoulos D. 
Superficial siderosis due to a lumbar ependymoma mimicking adult-onset spinocerebellar ataxia.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2007 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17555872 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Stark AM, Hugo HH, Tscheslog H, Maximilian H. 
p53, BCL-2 and BAX in non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases: a comparison of real-time RT-PCR, ELISA and immunohistochemical techniques.
Neurol Res. 2006 Dec 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17535549 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Vetrano A, Addeo R, Russo I, Meo G, De Rosa G, D'Anna F, Caraglia M. 
A case of clear renal cell cancer associated to meningioma and verrucous carcinoma of frontal region in an old patient.
J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Mar;26(1):157-9.
PMID: 17550146 [PubMed - in process]


Prognosis & Outcome


Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Maldonado JL, Williams VL, Curry WT, Rodkey EA, Barker FG 2nd, Sloan AE. 
Racial/ethnic differences in survival among elderly patients with a primary glioblastoma.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 26; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17530174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Kros JM, Gorlia T, Kouwenhoven MC, Zheng PP, Collins VP, Figarella-Branger D, Giangaspero F, Giannini C, Mokhtari K, Mork SJ, Paetau A, Reifenberger G, van den Bent MJ. 
Panel Review of Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma From European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Trial 26951: Assessment of Consensus in Diagnosis, Influence of 1p/19q Loss, and Correlations With Outcome.
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;66(6):545-551.
PMID: 17549014 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Mathiesen T, Gerlich A, Kihlstrom L, Svensson M, Bagger-Sjoback D. 
Effects of using combined transpetrosal surgical approaches to treat petroclival meningiomas.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun;60(6):982-91; discussion 991-2.
PMID: 17538371 [PubMed - in process]

Metellus P, Barrie M, Figarella-Branger D, Chinot O, Giorgi R, Gouvernet J, Jouvet A, Guyotat J. 
Multicentric French study on adult intracranial ependymomas: prognostic factors analysis and therapeutic considerations from a cohort of 152 patients.
Brain. 2007 May;130(Pt 5):1338-49. Epub 2007 Apr 19.
PMID: 17449478 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Vaidya SJ, Hargrave D, Saran F, Britton J, Soomal R, Bouffet E. 
Pattern of recurrence in paediatric malignant glioma: an institutional experience.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 26; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17530177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Treatment


Akerley W, McCoy J, Hesketh PJ, Goodwin JW, Bearden JD, Atkins JN, Chansky K, Crowley JJ, Gandara DR; SWOG. 
Gemcitabine and irinotecan for patients with untreated extensive stage small cell lung cancer: SWOG 0119.
J Thorac Oncol. 2007 Jun;2(6):526-30.
PMID: 17545848 [PubMed - in process]

Akyurek S, Chang EL, Mahajan A, Hassenbusch SJ, Allen PK, Mathews LA, Shiu AS, Maor MH, Woo SY. Stereotactic radiosurgical treatment of cerebral metastases arising from breast cancer.
Am J Clin Oncol. 2007 Jun;30(3):310-4.
PMID: 17551311 [PubMed - in process]
Alonso MM, Gomez-Manzano C, Jiang H, Bekele NB, Piao Y, Yung WK, Alemany R, Fueyo J. 
Combination of the oncolytic adenovirus ICOVIR-5 with chemotherapy provides enhanced anti-glioma effect in vivo.
Cancer Gene Ther. 2007 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17557108 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ampil F, Burton GV, Gonzalez-Toledo E, Nanda A. 
Do we need whole brain irradiation in multifocal or multicentric high-grade cerebral gliomas? Review of cases and the literature.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 30; [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
PMID: 17534578 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Bartsch R, Rottenfusser A, Wenzel C, Dieckmann K, Pluschnig U, Altorjai G, Rudas M, Mader RM, Poetter R, Zielinski CC, Steger GG. 
Trastuzumab prolongs overall survival in patients with brain metastases from Her2 positive breast cancer.
J Neurooncol. 2007 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17557136 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Beltran HI, Damian-Zea C, Hernandez-Ortega S, Nieto-Camacho A, Rami Rez-Apan MT. 
Synthesis and characterization of di-phenyl-tin(IV)-salicyliden-ortho-aminophenols: Analysis of in vitro antitumor/antioxidant activities and molecular structures.
J Inorg Biochem. 2007 Apr 19; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17555822 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Boado RJ. 
Blood-brain Barrier Transport of Non-viral Gene and RNAi Therapeutics.
Pharm Res. 2007 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17554608 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Candolfi M, Pluhar GE, Kroeger K, Puntel M, Curtin J, Barcia C, Muhammad AK, Xiong W, Liu C, Mondkar S, Kuoy W, Kang T, McNeil EA, Freese AB, Ohlfest JR, Moore P, Palmer D, Ng P, Young JD, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. 
Optimization of adenoviral vector-mediated transgene expression in the canine brain in vivo, and in canine glioma cells in vitro.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 May 23; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17522335 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Das CM, Aguilera D, Vasquez H, Prasad P, Zhang M, Wolff JE, Gopalakrishnan V. 
Valproic acid induces p21 and topoisomerase-II (alpha/beta) expression and synergistically enhances etoposide cytotoxicity in human glioblastoma cell lines.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 30; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17534580 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Decarvalho AC, Zhang X, Roberts C, Jiang F, Kalkanis SN, Hong X, Lu M, Chopp M. 
Subclinical photodynamic therapy treatment modifies the brain microenvironment and promotes glioma growth.
Glia. 2007 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17551928 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Due-Tonnessen BJ, Helseth E. 
Management of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumors: role of tumor surgery.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):92-6.
PMID: 17337918 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Forouzannia A, Richards GM, Khuntia D, Mehta MP. 
Motexafin gadolinium: a novel radiosensitizer for brain tumors.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007 Jun;7(6):785-94.
PMID: 17555388 [PubMed - in process]

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Gururangan S, Fisher MJ, Allen JC, Herndon JE 2nd, Quinn JA, Reardon DA, Vredenburgh JJ, Desjardins A, Phillips PC, Watral MA, Krauser JM, Friedman AH, Friedman HS. 
Temozolomide in children with progressive low-grade glioma.
Neuro-oncol. 2007 Apr;9(2):161-8. Epub 2007 Mar 8.
PMID: 17347491 [PubMed - in process]

Hu X, Maciunas RJ, Dean D. 
A new Gamma Knife radiosurgery paradigm: tomosurgery.
Med Phys. 2007 May;34(5):1743-58.
PMID: 17555256 [PubMed - in process]

Kim TS, Lee JW, Kim MJ, Park YS, Lee DH, Chung NG, Cho B, Lee S, Kim HK. 
Acute Colonic Pseudo-obstruction in Postchemotherapy Complication of Brain Tumor Treated With Neostigmine.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2007 Jun;29(6):420-422.
PMID: 17551407 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Kirson ED, Dbaly V, Tovarys F, Vymazal J, Soustiel JF, Itzhaki A, Mordechovich D, Steinberg-Shapira S, Gurvich Z, Schneiderman R, Wasserman Y, Salzberg M, Ryffel B, Goldsher D, Dekel E, Palti Y. 
Alternating electric fields arrest cell proliferation in animal tumor models and human brain tumors.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17551011 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Koot RW, Stalpers LJ, Aronica E, Andries Bosch D. 
Cerebral necrosis after 25Gy radiotherapy in childhood followed 28 years later by 54Gy radiotherapy.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2007 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17555870 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Koschny R, Holland H, Sykora J, Haas TL, Sprick MR, Ganten TM, Krupp W, Bauer M, Ahnert P, Meixensberger J, Walczak H. 
Bortezomib Sensitizes Primary Human Astrocytoma Cells of WHO Grades I to IV for Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand-Induced Apoptosis.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Jun 1;13(11):3403-12.
PMID: 17545549 [PubMed - in process]

Low D, Ng I, Ng WH. 
Awake craniotomy under local anaesthesia and monitored conscious sedation for resection of brain tumours in eloquent cortex - outcomes in 20 patients.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):326-6.
PMID: 17549278 [PubMed - in process]
Megalizzi V, Mathieu V, Mijatovic T, Gailly P, Debeir O, De Neve N, Van Damme M, Bontempi G, Haibe-Kains B, Decaestecker C, Kondo Y, Kiss R, Lefranc F.
4-IBP, a sigma1 receptor agonist, decreases the migration of human cancer cells, including glioblastoma cells, in vitro and sensitizes them in vitro and in vivo to cytotoxic insults of proapoptotic and proautophagic drugs.
Neoplasia. 2007 May;9(5):358-69.
PMID: 17534441 [PubMed - in process]

Nguyen ML, Kraft RM, Blaho JA. 
Susceptibility of cancer cells to herpes simplex virus-dependent apoptosis.
J Gen Virol. 2007 Jul;88(Pt 7):1866-75.
PMID: 17554017 [PubMed - in process]

Olivier D, Bourre L, El-Sabbagh E, Loussouarn D, Simonneaux G, Valette F, Patrice T. 
Photodynamic effects of SIM01, a new sensitizer, on experimental brain tumors in rats.
Surg Neurol. 2007 Jun 1; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17544487 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ramnarayan R, Sreehari NR, Ninan GK, John KM. 
Delayed postoperative extradural hematoma.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):113-4.
PMID: 17337922 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Ricard D, Kaloshi G, Amiel-Benouaich A, Lejeune J, Marie Y, Mandonnet E, Kujas M, Mokhtari K, Taillibert S, Laigle-Donadey F, Carpentier AF, Omuro A, Capelle L, Duffau H, Cornu P, Guillevin R, Sanson M, Hoang-Xuan K, Delattre JY. 
Dynamic history of low-grade gliomas before and after temozolomide treatment.
Ann Neurol. 2007 May;61(5):484-90.
PMID: 17469128 [PubMed - in process]

Ridola V, Grill J, Doz F, Gentet JC, Frappaz D, Raquin MA, Habrand JL, Sainte-Rose C, Valteau-Couanet D, Kalifa C. 
High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue followed by posterior fossa irradiation for local medulloblastoma recurrence or progression after conventional chemotherapy.
Cancer. 2007 May 31; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17541945 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Sasayama T, Tanaka K, Mizukawa K, Kawamura A, Kondoh T, Hosoda K, Kohmura E. 
Trans-4-lodo,4'-boranyl-chalcone induces antitumor activity against malignant glioma cell lines in vitro and in vivo.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 26; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17530176 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Sathornsumetee S, Reardon DA, Desjardins A, Quinn JA, Vredenburgh JJ, Rich JN. 
Molecularly targeted therapy for malignant glioma.
Cancer. 2007 May 22; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17520692 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

See SJ, Ty A, Wong MC. 
Salvage Chemotherapy in Progressive High-grade Astrocytoma.
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 May;36(5):343-4.
PMID: 17549281 [PubMed - in process]

Shimizu S, Utsuki S, Oka H, Fujii K. 
Depth-mark taping on neurosurgical instruments for brain tumor surgery: technical note.
Minim Invasive Neurosurg. 2007 Feb;50(1):60-1.
PMID: 17546547 [PubMed - in process]

Tajbakhsh M, Houghton PJ, Morton CL, Kolb EA, Gorlick R, Maris JM, Keir ST, Wu J, Reynolds CP, Smith MA, Lock RB. 
Initial testing of cisplatin by the pediatric preclinical testing program.
Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2007 Jun 6; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17554786 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Tummalapalli P, Gondi CS, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS. 
RNA interference-mediated targeting of urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and matrix metalloproteinase-9 gene expression in the IOMM-lee malignant meningioma cell line inhibits tumor growth, tumor cell invasion and angiogenesis.
Int J Oncol. 2007 Jul;31(1):5-17.
PMID: 17549400 [PubMed - in process]

Zheng ZM, Kuang GM, Dong ZY, Li FB, Lu Y, Chen H, Liu H, Zhang KB. 
[One-stage single balloon multiple expansions percutaneous kyphoplasty: report of 18 cases]
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2007 Mar 6;87(9):580-4. Chinese.
PMID: 17550722 [PubMed - in process]

Zhou YX, Armstrong RC. 
Interaction of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) and notch signaling components in inhibition of oligodendrocyte progenitor (OP) differentiation.
Neurosci Lett. 2007 May 16; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17548161 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Children's Corner


Elisabetta Mancini
Geremia e il terrore dei sette mari (Jeremiah and the terror of the seven seas
English translation by Mariangela Canzi
 BrainLife, 3 June 2007
Elisabetta Mancini
Il Gatto addormentato (The Sleeping Cat
English translation by
Jane Wilson & Jaqueline Hargrave
BrainLife
, 6 June 2007

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