Lymphoma, Supratentorial Tumors, Glioneuronal Tumors, Gangliogliomas, Neuroblastoma in Adults, Astrocytomas, Ependymomas, Hemangiomas, and Craniopharyngiomasseries:Tumors of the Central Nervous SystemThe ninth volume in this essential series discusses …
View SourceDiffusion abnormality index (DAI) shows promise as an imaging biomarker to measure brain tumor response to radiation therapy, according to research presented at the 2013 Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium. This Symposium is sponsored by the…
View SourceThe Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Brain (FACT-Br) is a brain specific Quality of life (QOL) tool used for both the primary brain tumour as well as metastatic brain tumour patient population. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the QOL issues health care professionals (HCPs) find most important when caring for brain metastases patients. (Source: Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences)
View SourceA new endoscopic surgical procedure has been shown to be safer and to result in better outcomes than the current standard medical treatment for patients who suffer strokes as a result of brain hemorrhages, UCLA neurosurgeons have announced.
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Injury to the subcortical structures of the inner brain is a major contributor to worsening neurological abnormalities after “awake craniotomy” for brain tumors, reports a study in the February issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. During a procedure intended to protect critical functional areas in the outer brain (cortex), damage to subcortical areas – which may be detectable on MRI scans – is a major risk factor for persistent neurological deficits… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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We describe a family affected by NF1 in whom genetic molecular analysis identified the same mutation in the son and father. Routine MRI showed pontine focal lesions in the eight-year-old son, though not in the father. We performed a four years follow-u…
View SourceCONCLUSION: These recent data strongly argue in favor of achieving a maximal resection of DLGG as the first therapeutic option. Biopsy should be considered only in very diffuse lesions (gliomatosis) or when a subtotal resection is not a priori possible…
View SourceAuthors: Asklund T, Malmström A, Björ O, Blomquist E, Henriksson R
PMID: 23398620 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: Acta Oncologica)
Authors: Zhao S, Deng Y, Liu Y, Chen X, Yang G, Mu Y, Zhang D, Kang J, Wu Z
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is lethal brain tumor thought to arise from GBM stem cells (GBM-SCs). MicroRNAs carry out post-transcriptional regulation of vari…
We reported the efficacy of a gene therapy approach for glioma consisting of intratumoral injection of Ads encoding conditionally cytotoxic herpes simplex type 1 thymidine kinase (Ad-TK) and the immunostimulatory cytokine fms-like tyrosine kinase ligan…
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