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 4 (April)

1. Bilateral malignant melanoma metastases to the internal auditory canal/cerebellopontine angle: surgical management and preservation of function.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 803-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma of intracranial origin.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 798-802. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. A distinct phenotypic change in gliomas at the time of magnetic resonance imaging detection.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 782-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Long-term recurrence and mortality after surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy for nonfunctional pituitary adenomas.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 736-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Expanded endonasal approach, a fully endoscopic transnasal approach for the resection of midline suprasellar craniopharyngiomas: a new classification based on the infundibulum.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 715-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Impact of surgical treatment on tremor due to posterior fossa tumors.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 692-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Outpatient brain tumor surgery: innovation in surgical neurooncology.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 649-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Patterns of care and outcomes among elderly individuals with primary malignant astrocytoma.
   J Neurosurg, 108(4): 642-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Gli activity correlates with tumor grade in platelet-derived growth factor-induced gliomas.
   Cancer Res, 68(7): 2241-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Identification of noninvasive imaging surrogates for brain tumor gene-expression modules.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(13): 5213-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Feasibility of metronomic maintenance chemotherapy following high-dose chemotherapy for malignant central nervous system tumors.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(5): 970-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. A role for glutamate in growth and invasion of primary brain tumors.
    J Neurochem, 105(2): 287-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Urokinase directly activates matrix metalloproteinases-9: a potential role in glioblastoma invasion.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 369(4): 1215-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Current neurosurgical management of brain metastases.
    Semin Oncol, 35(2): 100-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Outcome of children less than three years old at diagnosis with non-metastatic medulloblastoma treated with chemotherapy on the "Head Start" I and II protocols.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(6): 1169-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Attention mediates radiation's impact on daily living skills in children treated for brain tumors.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(6): 1253-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Detection of brain metastases from small cell lung cancer: consequences of changing imaging techniques (CT versus MRI).
    Cancer, 112(8): 1827-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Pulmonary resection in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer treated with gamma-knife radiosurgery for synchronous brain metastases.
    Cancer, 112(8): 1780-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. White matter functional connectivity as an additional landmark for dominant temporal lobectomy.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 79(5): 492-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. E2F1 in gliomas: a paradigm of oncogene addiction.
    Cancer Lett, 263(2): 157-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Up-regulation of NG2 proteoglycan and interferon-induced transmembrane proteins 1 and 3 in mouse astrocytoma: a membrane proteomics approach.
    Cancer Lett, 263(2): 243-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Diagnostic accuracy and interobserver variability of pulsed arterial spin labeling for glioma grading.
    Acta Radiol, 49(4): 450-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Urinary biomarkers predict brain tumor presence and response to therapy.
    Clin Cancer Res, 14(8): 2378-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Phase II trial of lapatinib for brain metastases in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer.
    J Clin Oncol, 26(12): 1993-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of adult brain tumors.
    Am J Epidemiol, 167(8): 976-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Endoscopic resection of hypothalamic hamartomas for refractory symptomatic epilepsy.
    Neurology, 70(17): 1543-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Somatostatinergic ligands in dopamine-sensitive and -resistant prolactinomas.
    Eur J Endocrinol, 158(5): 595-603. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Treg depletion inhibits efficacy of cancer immunotherapy: implications for clinical trials.
    PLoS ONE, 3(4): e1983. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Loss of cardiolipin in palmitate-treated GL15 glioblastoma cells favors cytochrome c release from mitochondria leading to apoptosis.
    J Neurochem, 105(3): 1019-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Bimodal viral vectors and in vivo imaging reveal the fate of human neural stem cells in experimental glioma model.
    J Neurosci, 28(17): 4406-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Salvage chemotherapy with CPT-11 for recurrent temozolomide-refractory anaplastic astrocytoma.
    Cancer, 112(9): 2038-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Ependymal tumors with sarcomatous change ("ependymosarcoma"): a clinicopathologic and molecular cytogenetic study.
    Am J Surg Pathol, 32(5): 699-709. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery as a salvage treatment for recurrent malignant gliomas.
    Cancer, 112(9): 2046-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. MGMT promoter methylation status can predict the incidence and outcome of pseudoprogression after concomitant radiochemotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients.
    J Clin Oncol, 26(13): 2192-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Rapid manifestation of CNS metastatic disease in a cervical carcinoma patient: a case report.
    Oncology, 73(3): 273-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Metastatic cancer cells with macrophage properties: evidence from a new murine tumor model.
    Int J Cancer, 123(1): 73-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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