Metastatic medulloblastoma in 10-year-old girl treated successfully with chemotherapy without radiotherapy.

abstract：:The basic mechanism of cell death induced by 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) (ALA-PDT) in glioma cells has not been fully elucidated. In this study, the details of the cell death mechanism induced by ALA-PDT were investigated in three human glioma cell lines (U251MG, U87MG, and U118MG...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Inoue H,Kajimoto Y,Shibata MA,Miyoshi N,Ogawa N,Miyatake S,Otsuki Y,Kuroiwa T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant activation of Akt is a common finding in adult malignant gliomas, resulting in most cases from mutations or deletions involving PTEN, which allows constitutive Akt phosphorylation. In contrast, we have previously reported that pediatric malignant gliomas, which are morphologically similar to lesions arising i...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Pollack IF,Hamilton RL,Burger PC,Brat DJ,Rosenblum MK,Murdoch GH,Nikiforova MN,Holmes EJ,Zhou T,Cohen KJ,Jakacki RI,Children's Oncology Group.

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 mutations are the most frequently detected genetic alterations of gliomas, appearing in a similar proportion of low and high grade astrocytomas, while the amplification of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene appears mainly in glioblastomas. Thus, these changes seem to delineate two subgroups of high grade...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Kordek R,Biernat W,Alwasiak J,Maculewicz R,Yanagihara R,Liberski PP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) share histological features and were therefore initially grouped as primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) and treated similarly. We sought to determine the relapse patterns of specific embryonal CNS tumors. We conducted a historical cohort study of children diagno...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Perreault S,Lober RM,Carret AS,Zhang G,Hershon L,Décarie JC,Yeom K,Vogel H,Fisher PG,Partap S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to classical oncological outcome measures such as time to progression and survival, the importance of cognitive functioning in patients with diffuse infiltrative brain tumors has only recently been recognized. Apart from the relatively low incidence and the invariably fatal outcome of gliomas, the general ass...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Klein M,Duffau H,De Witt Hamer PC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct involvement of the brain by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is extremely rare. This is the second documented case. A 63 year-old-man presented with motor deficits. Conventional radiographic imaging showed no abnormalities but an MRI scan of the head showed a high signal intensity lesion in the left cerebellu...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Pohar S,deMetz C,Poppema S,Hugh J

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Current medulloblastoma therapy, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, is unacceptably toxic. However, 13-cis retinoic acid (RA) and SAHA, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, have each been shown to induce apoptosis in medulloblastoma cultures and mouse models. Both drugs cross the blood brain barrier, have been g...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Spiller SE,Ditzler SH,Pullar BJ,Olson JM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a phase II study to test methotrexate (5 g/m(2)), as a single agent prior to radiochemotherapy for pediatric high-grade glioma and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Thirty patients (19 male, median age 10.8) were enrolled. Tumors were located as follows: cortex 10, pons 7, other 13. Tumor resection was cl...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Wolff JE,Kortmann RD,Wolff B,Pietsch T,Peters O,Schmid HJ,Rutkowski S,Warmuth-Metz M,Kramm C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a malignant tumor invades the child's cerebellum, the cost of successful treatment is often significant cognitive morbidity. A review of neuropsychological outcome revealed that survivors of childhood medulloblastoma (MB) have long-term deficits in intelligence, memory, language, attention, academic skills, psych...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Dennis M,Spiegler BJ,Hetherington CR,Greenberg ML

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective evaluation of single agent bevacizumab in adults with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) with an objective of determining progression free survival (PFS). There is no standard therapy for recurrent GBM after failure of alkylator-based chemotherapy. A total of 50 adults, ages 36-70 years (median 64), with rec...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Chamberlain MC,Johnston SK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topotecan was studied as a 72 h infusion given every 3 weeks. Treatment began at a dose of 1.0 mg/m2/day and was increased to 1.25 mg/m2/day after the first 6 patients tolerated this higher dose without excessive toxicities. Eighty-eight evaluable children were accrued in 6 strata. There were no complete nor partial r...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Kadota RP,Stewart CF,Horn M,Kuttesch JF Jr,Burger PC,Kepner JL,Kun LE,Friedman HS,Heideman RL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review identifies the current literature on the use of bevacizumab for cerebral radiation necrosis in patients with high-grade gliomas, summarizes the clinical course and complications following bevacizumab, and discusses the relative costs and benefits of this therapeutic option. A Medline search was conducted o...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Lubelski D,Abdullah KG,Weil RJ,Marko NF

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation (RT) is critical to the treatment of high-grade gliomas (HGGs) but cures remain elusive. The BRAF mutation V600E is critical to the pathogenesis of 10-20% of pediatric gliomas, and a small proportion of adult HGGs. Here we aim to determine whether PLX4720, a specific BRAF V600E inhibitor, enhances the activi...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Dasgupta T,Olow AK,Yang X,Hashizume R,Nicolaides TP,Tom M,Aoki Y,Berger MS,Weiss WA,Stalpers LJ,Prados M,James CD,Mueller S,Haas-Kogan DA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To increase awareness about lymphomatosis cerebri by describing a patient with a unique presentation Case report a 58 year old woman presented with progressive lower extremity weakness, postural hypotension, and 90 pound weight loss over 3 months a brain magnetic resonance image revealed multiple non-enhancing foci of...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Keswani A,Bigio E,Grimm S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study retrospectively reviewed our single institute experience to clarify the optimal indication and timing of salvage surgery. Retrospective analysis of 159 consecutive cases with germ cell tumors identified 20 cases with salvage surgery. These cases were classified based on the radiological response to neoadjuv...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Kanamori M,Kumabe T,Watanabe M,Chonan M,Saito R,Yamashita Y,Ogawa Y,Sonoda Y,Tominaga T

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) remains refractory to conventional therapy. CD133+ GBM cells have been recently isolated and characterized as chemo-/radio-resistant tumor-initiating cells and are hypothesized to be responsible for post-treatment recurrence. In order to explore the molecular properties of tumorigenic CD1...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Liu Q,Nguyen DH,Dong Q,Shitaku P,Chung K,Liu OY,Tso JL,Liu JY,Konkankit V,Cloughesy TF,Mischel PS,Lane TF,Liau LM,Nelson SF,Tso CL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A previous study confirmed that a novel splicing variant of large vascular endothelial growth factor (L-VEGF) termed L-VEGF144, a nucleolus protein, is found in glioblastoma cells and specimens, but the actual biological function and clinical significance of L-VEGF144 remain unclear. METHODS:In this study...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Cheng WY,Shen CC,Chiao MT,Liang YJ,Mao TF,Liu BS,Chen JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric glial tumors differ from adult gliomas in several ways that are of major therapeutic importance. First, the value of extensive tumor resection, which is controversial for malignant intrinsic brain tumors in adults, has been confirmed for a variety of childhood brain tumors, such as supratentorial high-grade ...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Pollack IF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a new xenogeneic animal model of leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) by intracisternal inoculation of human CEM T-cell lymphoma into nude rats, and used it to evaluate the anti-lymphoma efficacy of an anti-CD7 ricin A chain immunotoxin (DA7). In vitro incubation with 2 microg/ml DA7 for 72 h inhibited C...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Herrlinger U,Schmidberger H,Buchholz R,Wehrmann M,Vallera DA,Schabet M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, no histopathological vascular investigation focusing on peritumoral brain zone (PBZ) has been reported for glioblastoma. We analyzed 10 newly diagnosed cases of glioblastomas. For these PBZs, histopathological investigation was performed by hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) staining and immunohistochemistry was analyze...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Tamura R,Ohara K,Sasaki H,Morimoto Y,Yoshida K,Toda M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) may predict worse outcomes in cancer, including glioblastoma (GBM). This study assessed whether change in NLR during focal radiotherapy and concomitant temozolomide (RT-TMZ) provides further prognostic information. This was a retrospective review of patients treated with RT-T...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Mason M,Maurice C,McNamara MG,Tieu MT,Lwin Z,Millar BA,Menard C,Laperriere N,Milosevic M,Atenafu EG,Mason W,Chung C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilocytic astrocytomas are rare intracranial gliomas that are typically treated with surgical extirpation. Our aim was to report the radiologic and clinical outcomes of patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for pilocytic astrocytoma in the primary and salvage setting. Patients with pilocytic astrocytom...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Trifiletti DM,Peach MS,Xu Z,Kersh R,Showalter TN,Sheehan JP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some unresectable and symptomatic meningiomas recur after conventional radiation therapy or stereotactic radiosurgery and are a therapeutic challenge. Evidence-based data from medical therapy for patients with recurrent meningioma can be deemed insufficient. Because of the prevalent expression of PDGF receptors in men...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Horak P,Wöhrer A,Hassler M,Hainfellner J,Preusser M,Marosi C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cast light on the mechanisms of drug-resistance, experimental brain tumors were immunohistochemically evaluated for expression of glutathione S-transferase (GST)-alpha, mu, pi, p-glycoprotein and apoptosis-related factors, such as bcl-2 and p53, as well as by the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP-...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Yabuno T,Konishi N,Nakamura M,Tsuzuki T,Tsunoda S,Sakaki T,Hiasa Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic silencing of the O(6)-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) gene by promoter methylation is correlated with improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) who receive alkylating agents. The aim of this study is to ...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Minniti G,Salvati M,Arcella A,Buttarelli F,D'Elia A,Lanzetta G,Esposito V,Scarpino S,Maurizi Enrici R,Giangaspero F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and obesity are known risk factors for poor outcomes in patients with systemic malignancies but are not well-studied in the brain tumor population. In this study we asked if type 2 DM and elevated body mass index (BMI) are independent risk factors for poor prognosis in patients with high-...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Chambless LB,Parker SL,Hassam-Malani L,McGirt MJ,Thompson RC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of our study was to determine the statistical significance of thresholds of relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and ADC ratios in grading cerebral gliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this retrospective study, 51 patients with histopathologically confirmed prima...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Arvinda HR,Kesavadas C,Sarma PS,Thomas B,Radhakrishnan VV,Gupta AK,Kapilamoorthy TR,Nair S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although the survival of most melanoma patients diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease (LMD) is short, some patients can have better outcomes and prolonged survival. A large retrospective cohort of patients was analyzed to identify features associated with survival with LMD from melanoma. METHODS:Clinical chara...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Ferguson SD,Bindal S,Bassett RL Jr,Haydu LE,McCutcheon IE,Heimberger AB,Li J,O'Brien BJ,Guha-Thakurta N,Tetzlaff MT,Tawbi H,Davies MA,Glitza IC

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modification through histone deacetylase inhibition has shown evidence of activity against malignancies. The mechanism of action of such agents are pleiotropic and potentially tumor specific. In this study, we studied the mechanisms of vorinostat-induced cellular effects in gliomas. The effects of vorinostat...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Xu J,Sampath D,Lang FF,Prabhu S,Rao G,Fuller GN,Liu Y,Puduvalli VK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of bevacizumab therapy for the treatment of progressive malignant gliomas, it is currently unclear how different magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences correlate with each other over time. The objective of this study was to determine if a reliable and predictable relationship over time exists betwee...

journal_title：Journal of neuro-oncology

authors： Thompson EM,Dosa E,Kraemer DF,Neuwelt EA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00