Glioblastoma and other primary brain malignancies in adults: a review

LR Schaff, IK Mellinghoff - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Malignant primary brain tumors cause more than 15 000 deaths per year in the
United States. The annual incidence of primary malignant brain tumors is approximately 7 …

Glioma targeted therapy: insight into future of molecular approaches

K Yang, Z Wu, H Zhang, N Zhang, W Wu, Z Wang… - Molecular Cancer, 2022 - Springer
Gliomas are the common type of brain tumors originating from glial cells. Epidemiologically,
gliomas occur among all ages, more often seen in adults, which males are more susceptible …

Clinical implications of the 2021 edition of the WHO classification of central nervous system tumours

C Horbinski, T Berger, RJ Packer, PY Wen - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
A new edition of the WHO classification of tumours of the CNS was published in 2021.
Although the previous edition of this classification was published just 5 years earlier, in …

Exosome-based smart drug delivery tool for cancer theranostics

R Kar, R Dhar, S Mukherjee, S Nag… - ACS biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are the phospholipid-membrane-bound subpopulation of extracellular vesicles
derived from the plasma membrane. The main activity of exosomes is cellular …

The type II RAF inhibitor tovorafenib in relapsed/refractory pediatric low-grade glioma: the phase 2 FIREFLY-1 trial

LB Kilburn, DA Khuong-Quang, JR Hansford, D Landi… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
BRAF genomic alterations are the most common oncogenic drivers in pediatric low-grade
glioma (pLGG). Arm 1 (n= 77) of the ongoing phase 2 FIREFLY-1 (PNOC026) trial …

Targeting KRAS mutant cancers: from druggable therapy to drug resistance

C Zhu, X Guan, X Zhang, X Luan, Z Song, X Cheng… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Kirsten Rat Sarcoma Viral Oncogene Homolog (KRAS) is the most frequently
mutated oncogene, occurring in a variety of tumor types. Targeting KRAS mutations with …

Primary brain tumours in adults

MJ van den Bent, M Geurts, PJ French, M Smits… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
The most frequent adult-type primary CNS tumours are diffuse gliomas, but a large variety of
rarer CNS tumour types exists. The classification of these tumours is increasingly based on …

Integrated proteogenomic characterization across major histological types of pediatric brain cancer

F Petralia, N Tignor, B Reva, M Koptyra, S Chowdhury… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We report a comprehensive proteogenomics analysis, including whole-genome sequencing,
RNA sequencing, and proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling, of 218 tumors across 7 …

Selumetinib in children with inoperable plexiform neurofibromas

AM Gross, PL Wolters, E Dombi… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Background No approved therapies exist for inoperable plexiform neurofibromas in patients
with neurofibromatosis type 1. Methods We conducted an open-label, phase 2 trial of …

Integrated molecular and clinical analysis of 1,000 pediatric low-grade gliomas

S Ryall, M Zapotocky, K Fukuoka, L Nobre, AG Stucklin… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Pediatric low-grade gliomas (pLGG) are frequently driven by genetic alterations in the RAS-
mitogen-activated protein kinase (RAS/MAPK) pathway yet show unexplained variability in …