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 5 (2008), Issue 2 (February)

1. Expression of Kir 4.1 in human astrocytic tumors: correlation with pathologic grade.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 367(4): 743-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. DMD and IL1RAPL1: two large adjacent genes localized within a common fragile site (FRAXC) have reduced expression in cultured brain tumors.
   Cytogenet Genome Res, 119(3): 196-203. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. How robust is the optic chiasm? Perimetric and neuro-imaging correlations.
   Acta Neurol Scand, 117(3): 198-204. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Mobile phone use, exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic field, and brain tumour: a case-control study.
   Br J Cancer, 98(3): 652-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Dietary zinc intake and brain cancer in adults: a case-control study.
   Br J Nutr, 99(3): 667-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: predictive value for the site of postradiotherapy relapse in a prospective longitudinal study.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(3): 773-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Radiosurgery with or without A 2-mm margin for 93 single brain metastases.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(3): 766-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Multi-institution prospective trial of reduced-dose craniospinal irradiation (23.4 Gy) followed by conformal posterior fossa (36 Gy) and primary site irradiation (55.8 Gy) and dose-intensive chemotherapy for average-risk medulloblastoma.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(3): 782-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Intraventricular vascular malformations mimicking tumors: case reports and review of the literature.
   J Neurol Sci, 266(1): 63-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Giant tumefactive perivascular spaces.
    J Neurol Sci, 266(1): 171-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Phase I clinical trial of cilengitide in children with refractory brain tumors: Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study PBTC-012.
    J Clin Oncol, 26(6): 919-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Polymorphisms of LIG4 and XRCC4 involved in the NHEJ pathway interact to modify risk of glioma.
    Hum Mutat, 29(3): 381-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Systemic vesicular stomatitis virus selectively destroys multifocal glioma and metastatic carcinoma in brain.
    J Neurosci, 28(8): 1882-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Imaging characteristics of atypical teratoid-rhabdoid tumor in children compared with medulloblastoma.
    AJR Am J Roentgenol, 190(3): 809-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Gamma-knife radiosurgery as an optimal treatment modality for brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer.
    Gynecol Oncol, 108(3): 505-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Intrathecal rituximab treatment for pediatric post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder of the central nervous system.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(4): 886-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Central nervous system juvenile xanthogranuloma with malignant transformation.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(4): 927-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Carotid cavernous fistula in CNS choriocarcinoma.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(4): 893-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. BAC array CGH distinguishes mutually exclusive alterations that define clinicogenetic subtypes of gliomas.
    Int J Cancer, 122(8): 1778-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Elimination of regulatory T cells is essential for an effective vaccination with tumor lysate-pulsed dendritic cells in a murine glioma model.
    Int J Cancer, 122(8): 1794-802. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Impairment of intellectual functions after surgery and posterior fossa irradiation in children with ependymoma is related to age and neurologic complications.
    BMC Cancer, 8: 15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Comparison of Gd-DTPA-induced signal enhancements in rat brain C6 glioma among different pulse sequences in 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging.
    Acta Radiol, 49(2): 172-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Quantitative analysis of somatostatin receptor subtypes (1-5) gene expression levels in somatotropinomas and correlation to in vivo hormonal and tumor volume responses to treatment with octreotide LAR.
    Eur J Endocrinol, 158(3): 295-303. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Growth modelling of non-functioning pituitary adenomas in patients referred for surgery.
    Eur J Endocrinol, 158(3): 287-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Tumors in the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle as a cause of epilepsy.
    J Child Neurol, 23(3): 315-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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