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 3 (2006), Issue 4 (April)

1. An estimation of radiobiologic parameters from clinical outcomes for radiation treatment planning of brain tumor.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 64(5): 1570-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Combined proton and photon irradiation for craniopharyngioma: long-term results of the early cohort of patients treated at Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 64(5): 1348-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Hypofractionated high-dose irradiation for the treatment of malignant astrocytomas using simultaneous integrated boost technique by IMRT.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 64(5): 1317-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Cortistatin-17 and somatostatin-14 display the same effects on growth hormone, prolactin, and insulin secretion in patients with acromegaly or prolactinoma.
   J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91(4): 1595-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Primary treatment of acromegaly with octreotide LAR: a long-term (up to nine years) prospective study of its efficacy in the control of disease activity and tumor shrinkage.
   J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91(4): 1397-403. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Identification of acromegalic patients at risk of developing colonic adenomas.
   J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91(4): 1351-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Prolonged but reversible migraine-like episodes long after cranial irradiation.
   Neurology, 66(7): 1105-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Progressive low-grade oligodendrogliomas: response to temozolomide and correlation between genetic profile and O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase protein expression.
   Cancer, 106(8): 1759-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. A case of cranial surgery in the Talmud.
   J Hist Neurosci, 15(2): 102-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study.
    BMJ, 332(7546): 883-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Genomics identifies medulloblastoma subgroups that are enriched for specific genetic alterations.
    J Clin Oncol, 24(12): 1924-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Chemokine-directed migration of tumor-inhibitory neural progenitor cells towards an intracranially growing glioma.
    Exp Cell Res, 312(8): 1265-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Dexmedetomidine as rescue drug during awake craniotomy for cortical motor mapping and tumor resection.
    Anesth Analg, 102(5): 1556-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Secondary intracranial neoplasms exhibiting features of astrocytoma and neuroblastoma in 2 children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia: report of 2 cases.
    Surg Neurol, 65(5): 490-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Patterns of neuroaxis dissemination of gliomas: suggestion of a classification based on magnetic resonance imaging findings.
    Surg Neurol, 65(5): 472-7; discussion 477. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 (IGFBP-4) is a novel anti-angiogenic and anti-tumorigenic mediator secreted by dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dB-cAMP)-differentiated glioblastoma cells.
    Glia, 53(8): 845-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Transplanted glioma cells migrate and proliferate on host brain vasculature: a dynamic analysis.
    Glia, 53(8): 799-808. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Reclassification of oligoastrocytomas by loss of heterozygosity studies.
    Int J Cancer, 119(1): 84-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Na(+), K(+)-ATPase content in skeletal muscle of dogs with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism.
    Domest Anim Endocrinol, 30(4): 320-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Nonsmall cell lung cancer presenting with synchronous solitary brain metastasis.
    Cancer, 106(9): 1998-2004. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery alone or in combination with whole brain radiotherapy compared to conventional surgery and/or whole brain radiotherapy for the treatment of one or more brain metastases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
    Cancer Treat Rev, 32(3): 203-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Immunohistochemical profile and chromosomal imbalances in papillary tumours of the pineal region.
    Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 32(3): 278-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Knockdown of annexin 2 decreases migration of human glioma cells in vitro.
    Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 32(3): 271-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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