Brain Cancer Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Brain Cancer, including details on symptoms, benign and malignant tumors, gliomas, treatment.

Volume 1 (2004), Issue 5 (December)

1. Abnormal cortical cells and astrocytomas in the Eker rat model of tuberous sclerosis complex.
   Epilepsia, 45(12): 1525-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. PKC-eta mediates glioblastoma cell proliferation through the Akt and mTOR signaling pathways.
   Oncogene, 23(56): 9062-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Clinically evident venous thromboembolic events in children with brain tumors.
   J Pediatr, 145(6): 848-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Transsphenoidal microsurgery for Cushing's disease: initial outcome and long-term results.
   J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 89(12): 6348-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Mutations within the programmed cell death 10 gene cause cerebral cavernous malformations.
   Am J Hum Genet, 76(1): 42-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The pathogenesis and treatment of brain metastases: a comprehensive review.
   Crit Rev Oncol Hematol, 52(3): 199-215. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Heme oxygenase-1-mediated partial cytoprotective effect by NO on cadmium-induced cytotoxicity in C6 rat glioma cells.
   Toxicol In Vitro, 19(1): 31-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase methylation and TP53 mutation in malignant astrocytomas and their relationships with clinical course.
   Int J Cancer, 113(4): 581-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Impact of [18F]FDG-PET on the primary staging of small-cell lung cancer.
   Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 31(12): 1614-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Pharmacokinetic model-predicted anticancer drug concentrations in human tumors.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(23): 8048-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Apurinic endonuclease activity in adult gliomas and time to tumor progression after alkylating agent-based chemotherapy and after radiotherapy.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(23): 7875-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Therapeutic efficacy of DTI-015 using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging as an early surrogate marker.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(23): 7852-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Molecular stratification of diagnostically challenging high-grade gliomas composed of small cells: the utility of fluorescence in situ hybridization.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(23): 7820-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Increased expression of aquaporin-4 in human traumatic brain injury and brain tumors.
    J Zhejiang Univ Sci B, 6(1): 33-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Serum protein fingerprinting coupled with artificial neural network distinguishes glioma from healthy population or brain benign tumor.
    J Zhejiang Univ Sci B, 6(1): 4-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. BOLD responses to visual stimulation in survivors of childhood cancer.
    Neuroimage, 24(1): 61-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Lymphoid gene expression as a predictor of risk of secondary brain tumors.
    Genes Chromosomes Cancer, 42(2): 107-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Recovery of anterograde amnesia in a case of craniopharyngioma.
    Arch Neurol, 61(12): 1948-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Impact of the coxsackie and adenovirus receptor (CAR) on glioma cell growth and invasion: requirement for the C-terminal domain.
    Int J Cancer, 113(5): 738-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Investigation of human brain tumors for the presence of polyomavirus genome sequences by two independent laboratories.
    Int J Cancer, 113(5): 769-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Endoscope-assisted microsurgery for tumors of the septum pellucidum: surgical considerations and benefits of the method in the treatment of four serial cases.
    Neurosurg Rev, 28(1): 39-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. The development of functional imaging in the diagnosis, management and understanding of childhood brain tumours.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 44(2): 103-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. An unliganded thyroid hormone beta receptor activates the cyclin D1/cyclin-dependent kinase/retinoblastoma/E2F pathway and induces pituitary tumorigenesis.
    Mol Cell Biol, 25(1): 124-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Isolation of cancer stem cells from adult glioblastoma multiforme.
    Oncogene, 23(58): 9392-400. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Proliferation of transformed somatotroph cells related to low or absent expression of protein kinase a regulatory subunit 1A protein.
    Cancer Res, 64(24): 9193-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Specific recognition and killing of glioblastoma multiforme by interleukin 13-zetakine redirected cytolytic T cells.
    Cancer Res, 64(24): 9160-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Agents with selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulator activity induce apoptosis in vitro and in vivo in ER-negative glioma cells.
    Cancer Res, 64(24): 9115-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Gefitinib is active in patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer and response is related to skin toxicity.
    Lung Cancer, 47(1): 129-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. 11C-methionine PET as a prognostic marker in patients with glioma: comparison with 18F-FDG PET.
    Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 32(1): 52-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Direct comparison of 18F-FDG and 11C-methionine PET in suspected recurrence of glioma: sensitivity, inter-observer variability and prognostic value.
    Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 32(1): 39-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Kinetics of vascular normalization by VEGFR2 blockade governs brain tumor response to radiation: role of oxygenation, angiopoietin-1, and matrix metalloproteinases.
    Cancer Cell, 6(6): 553-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Leukoencephalopathy around a tumor cyst following intracystic methotrexate injection.
    Pediatr Neurol, 32(1): 68-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. A simple and sensitive assay for the quantitative analysis of paclitaxel in human and mouse plasma and brain tumor tissue using coupled liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry.
    J Mass Spectrom, 39(12): 1506-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Central neurocytoma: a clinicopathological and neuroradiological study.
    Neuroradiology, 46(11): 888-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Feasibility and response to induction chemotherapy intensified with high-dose methotrexate for young children with newly diagnosed high-risk disseminated medulloblastoma.
    J Clin Oncol, 22(24): 4881-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Selective transduction of malignant glioma by lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoproteins.
    Hum Gene Ther, 15(11): 1091-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Noninvasive MR imaging of magnetically labeled stem cells to directly identify neovasculature in a glioma model.
    Blood, 105(1): 420-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Awake stereotactic biopsy of brain stem lesions: technique and results.
    Acta Neurochir (Wien), 147(1): 47-9; discussion 49-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Household water source and the risk of childhood brain tumours: results of the SEARCH International Brain Tumor Study.
    Int J Epidemiol, 33(6): 1209-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Oedema formation in experimental photo-irradiation therapy of brain tumours using 5-ALA.
    Acta Neurochir (Wien), 147(1): 57-65; discussion 65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Postural intermittent headaches as the initial symptom of a cavernoma in the third ventricle.
    Acta Neurochir (Wien), 147(1): 105-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Radical resection for intrinsic midbrain pilocytic astrocytoma: report of two cases.
    Acta Neurochir (Wien), 147(1): 93-7; discussion 97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Comparison of outcomes between overlapping structure-based and non-overlapping structure-based optimization for simultaneous integrated boost IMRT for malignant gliomas.
    Int J Clin Oncol, 9(6): 491-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Chemoradiotherapy for brain tumors: current status and perspectives.
    Int J Clin Oncol, 9(6): 471-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Intraoperative diffusion-tensor MR imaging: shifting of white matter tracts during neurosurgical procedures--initial experience.
    Radiology, 234(1): 218-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma--a clinicopathological study of 23 cases with special emphasis on histogenesis.
    Pathol Oncol Res, 10(4): 219-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Symptomatic segmental dystonia from a cavernous angioma in the centrum semiovale.
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord, 11(1): 65-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Analysis of the electroencephalographic activity associated with thalamic tumors.
    J Theor Biol, 233(2): 271-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. A knowledge-guided active contour method of segmentation of cerebella on MR images of pediatric patients with medulloblastoma.
    J Magn Reson Imaging, 21(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Vitamin C uptake and recycling among normal and tumor cells from the central nervous system.
    J Neurosci Res, 79(1): 146-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Role of temozolomide after radiotherapy for newly diagnosed diffuse brainstem glioma in children: results of a multiinstitutional study (SJHG-98).
    Cancer, 103(1): 133-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Metastatic meningioma to the liver successfully treated with a wedge resection and radiation therapy: report of a case.
    Surg Today, 35(1): 82-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Lung cancer and its operable brain metastasis: survival rate and staging problems.
    Ann Thorac Surg, 79(1): 241-7; discussion 241-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Transsphenoidal adenomectomy for GH-, PRL- and ACTH-secreting pituitary tumours: outcome analysis in a series of 125 patients.
    Neurol Sci, 25(5): 251-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Cancer therapy with a replicating oncolytic adenovirus targeting the hypoxic microenvironment of tumors.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(24): 8603-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Efficacy and safety evaluation of human reovirus type 3 in immunocompetent animals: racine and nonhuman primates.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(24): 8561-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Characterization of gastrin-induced proangiogenic effects in vivo in orthotopic U373 experimental human glioblastomas and in vitro in human umbilical vein endothelial cells.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(24): 8250-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Noninvasive magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging biomarkers to predict the clinical grade of pediatric brain tumors.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(24): 8220-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Hypoxia is important in the biology and aggression of human glial brain tumors.
    Clin Cancer Res, 10(24): 8177-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Suicide gene therapy with an adenovirus expressing the fusion gene CD::UPRT in human glioblastomas: different sensitivities correlate with p53 status.
    J Gene Med, 6(12): 1320-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Lethal basal cell carcinoma secondary to cerebral invasion.
    J Am Acad Dermatol, 52(1): 149-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Brain stem glioblastoma with multiple large cyst formation and leptomeningeal dissemination in a 4-year-old girl.
    Brain Dev, 27(1): 58-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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