Using the molecular classification of glioblastoma to inform personalized treatment

A Olar, KD Aldape - The Journal of pathology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive diffuse glioma, associated with short
survival and uniformly fatal outcome, irrespective of treatment. It is characterized by …

Understanding glioblastoma tumor biology: the potential to improve current diagnosis and treatments

S Kesari - Seminars in oncology, 2011 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly malignant brain cancer characterized by uncontrolled
cellular proliferation, diffuse infiltration, a tendency for necrosis, significant angiogenesis …

Molecular genetics of gliomas

CL Appin, DJ Brat - The Cancer Journal, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Diffusely infiltrating gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors and include
astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, and oligoastrocytomas of grades II and III and …

Fusion radiomics features from conventional MRI predict MGMT promoter methylation status in lower grade gliomas

C Jiang, Z Kong, S Liu, S Feng, Y Zhang, R Zhu… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose The methylation status of the O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)
promoter has been proven to be a prognostic and predictive biomarker for lower grade …

Molecular pathways in gliomagenesis and their relevance to neuropathologic diagnosis

CL Appin, DJ Brat - Advances in anatomic pathology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Gliomas are a large and diverse group of primary brain tumors that include those that are
diffusely infiltrative and others that are well-circumscribed and low grade. Diffuse gliomas …

Artificial intelligence in glioma imaging: challenges and advances

W **, M Fatehi, K Abhishek, M Mallya… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Primary brain tumors including gliomas continue to pose significant management
challenges to clinicians. While the presentation, the pathology, and the clinical course of …

Beyond brooding on oncometabolic havoc in IDH-mutant gliomas and AML: current and future therapeutic strategies

HR Madala, SR Punganuru, V Arutla, S Misra… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Isocitrate dehydrogenases 1 and 2 (IDH1, 2), the key Krebs cycle enzymes that generate
NADPH reducing equivalents, undergo heterozygous mutations in> 70% of low-to mid …

A clinicopathological and molecular analysis of glioblastoma multiforme with long-term survival

P Das, T Puri, P Jha, P Pathak, N Joshi, V Suri… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
The median survival time of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is 12months, and
only 3–5% of patients survive longer than 3years. We performed histomorphological and …

IDH mutations in human glioma

W Kim, LM Liau - Neurosurgery clinics of North America, 2012 - Elsevier
A novel mutation of isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) was recently found in a large
percentage of secondary human gliomas. Unlike previously discovered prognostic …

MGMT promoter hypermethylation and its associations with genetic alterations in a series of 350 brain tumors

M Mellai, O Monzeglio, A Piazzi, V Caldera… - Journal of neuro …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract MGMT (O 6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase) promoter hypermethylation is a
helpful prognostic marker for chemotherapy of gliomas, although with some controversy for …