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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 50 - 13 December 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Early Detection
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Prognosis & Outcome
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment
Children's Corner

Early Detection


Dörner L, Fritsch MJ, Stark AM, Mehdorn HM
Posterior fossa tumors in children: how long does it take to establish the diagnosis?
Childs Nerv Syst. 2007 Aug;23(8):887-90. Epub 2007 Apr 12
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Etiology & Pathogenesis


Pfisterer WK, Coons SW, Aboul-Enein F, Hendricks WP, Scheck AC, Preul MC
Implicating chromosomal aberrations with meningioma growth and recurrence: results from FISH and MIB-I analysis of grades I and II meningioma tissue
J Neurooncol. 2007 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print]
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Valera ET, Lucio-Eterovic AK, Neder L, Scrideli CA, Machado HR, Carlotti-Junior CG, Queiroz RG, Motta FJ, Tone LG
Quantitative PCR analysis of the expression profile of genes related to multiple drug resistance in tumors of the central nervous system
J Neurooncol. 2007 Oct;85(1):1-10. Epub 2007 Apr 12

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Overall Management


Jeibmann A, Wrede B, Peters O, Wolff JE, Paulus W, Hasselblatt M.
Malignant progression in choroid plexus papillomas
J Neurosurg. 2007 Sep;107(3 Suppl):199-202
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Prognosis & Outcome


Lo KC, Ma C, Bundy BN, Pomeroy SL, Eberhart CG, Cowell JK
Gain of 1q is a potential univariate negative prognostic marker for survival in medulloblastoma
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Dec 1;13(23):7022-8
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Mangiola A, Lama G, Giannitelli C, De Bonis P, Anile C, Lauriola L, La Torre G, Sabatino G, Maira G, Jhanwar-Uniyal M, Sica G
Stem Cell Marker Nestin and c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinases in Tumor and Peritumor Areas of Glioblastoma Multiforme: Possible Prognostic Implications
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Dec 1;13(23):6970-6977.
Abstract | DBLinks

Patil CG, Lad SP, Santarelli J, Boakye M
National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for spinal metastasis from 1993-2002
Cancer. 2007 Aug 1;110(3):625-30. Epub 2007 Jun 18
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Pfister S, Rea S, Taipale M, Mendrzyk F, Straub B, Ittrich C, Thuerigen O, Sinn HP, Akhtar A, Lichter P
The histone acetyltransferase hMOF is frequently downregulated in primary breast carcinoma and medulloblastoma and constitutes a biomarker for clinical outcome in medulloblastoma
Int J Cancer. 2007 Nov 30; [Epub ahead of print]
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Swanson KR, Rostomily RC, Alvord EC Jr
A mathematical modelling tool for predicting survival of individual patients following resection of glioblastoma: a proof of principle
Br J Cancer. 2007 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print]
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Psychosocial Aspects


Wagner LI, Wenzel L, Shaw E, Cella D
Patient-reported outcomes in phase II cancer clinical trials: lessons learned and future directions
J Clin Oncol. 2007 Nov 10;25(32):5058-62. Review
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Yoshii Y, Tominaga D, Sugimoto K, Tsuchida Y, Hyodo A, Yonaha H, Kushi S
Cognitive function of patients with brain tumor in pre- and postoperative stage
Surg Neurol. 2008 Jan;69(1):51-61
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Treatment


Loghin ME, Prados MD, Wen P, Junck L, Lieberman F, Fine H, Fink KL, Metha M, Kuhn J, Lamborn K, Chang SM, Cloughesy T, Deangelis LM, Robins IH, Aldape KD, Yung WK
Phase I Study of Temozolomide and Irinotecan for Recurrent Malignant Gliomas in Patients Receiving Enzyme-Inducing Antiepileptic Drugs: A North American Brain Tumor Consortium Study
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Dec 1;13(23):7133-8
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Yoshimura J, Nishiyama K, Mori H, Takahashi H, Fujii Y
Intrathecal chemotherapy for refractory disseminated medulloblastoma
Childs Nerv Syst. 2007 Dec 5; [Epub ahead of print]
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Children's Corner


Elisabetta Mancini Camporeale
Il miracolo della Notte di Natale (The Christmas Miracle) 
English translation by Jane Wilson & Jaqueline Hargrave
BrainLife, 13 December 2007
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