Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis

1. Front Matter

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2. The World Health Organization Classification of the Central Nervous System Tumors: An Update Using Imaging

   • Shiori Amemiya

   Pages 1-7

3. Brain Tumor Imaging: European Association of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines

   • Thierry Vander Borght, Susanne Asenbaum, Peter Bartenstein, Christer Halldin, Özlem Kapucu, Koen Van Laere et al.

   Pages 9-19

4. Assessment of Heterogeneity in Malignant Brain Tumors

   • Timothy E. Van Meter, Gary Tye, Catherine Dumur, William C. Broaddus

   Pages 21-32

5. Diagnosing and Grading of Brain Tumors: Immunohistochemistry

   • Hidehiro Takei, Suzanne Z. Powell

   Pages 33-51

6. Malignant Brain Tumors: Roles of Aquaporins

   • Jérôme Badaut, Jean-François Brunet

   Pages 53-64

7. Brain Metastases: Gene Amplification Using Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis

   • Carmen Franco-Hernandez, Miguel Torres-Martin, Victor Martinez-Glez, Carolina Peña-Granero, Javier S. Castresana, Cacilda Casartelli et al.

   Pages 65-69

8. Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterase-4 in Brain Tumor Biology: Immunochemical Analysis

   • B. Mark Woerner, Joshua B. Rubin

   Pages 71-82

9. Radiosurgical Treatment of Progressive Malignant Brain Tumors

   • Cole A. Giller

   Pages 83-96

10. Anti-vascular Therapy for Brain Tumors

    • Florence M. Hofman, Thomas C. Chen

    Pages 97-108

11. Glial Brain Tumors: Antiangiogenic Therapy

    • William P. J. Leenders, Pieter Wesseling

    Pages 109-119

12. Brain Tumors: Amide Proton Transfer Imaging

    • Jinyuan Zhou, Jaishri O. Blakeley

    Pages 121-129

13. Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Rat Models of Invasive Brain Tumors

    • Sungheon Kim, Steve Pickup, Harish Poptani

    Pages 131-144

14. Brain Tumors: Diffusion Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

    • Pia C. Sundgren, Yue Cao, Thomas L. Chenevert

    Pages 145-156

15. Brain Tumors: Planning and Monitoring Therapy with Positron Emission Tomography

    • D. J. Coope, K. Herholz, P. Price

    Pages 157-178

16. Clinical Evaluation of Primary Brain Tumor: O-(2-[18F]Fluorethyl)-L-Tyrosine Positron Emission Tomography

    • Matthias Weckesser, Karl-Josef Langen

    Pages 179-188

17. Combined Use of [F-18]Fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]Methionine in 45 PET-Guided Stereotactic Brain Biopsies

    • Benoit Pirotte

    Pages 189-201

18. Hemorrhagic Brain Neoplasm – 99mTc-Methoxyisobutyl Isonitrile-Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

    • Filippo F. Angileri, Fabio Minutoli, Domenico La Torre, Sergio Baldari

    Pages 203-213

19. Brain Tumor Imaging Using p-[123I]Iodo-L-Phenylalanine and SPECT

    • Dirk Hellwig

    Pages 215-226

20. Diagnosis and Staging of Brain Tumours: Magnetic Resonance Single Voxel Spectra

    • Margarida Julià-Sapé, Carles Majós, Carles Arús

    Pages 227-243

This eighth volume in the series Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis discusses in detail the classification of the CNS tumors as well as brain tumor imaging. Scientists and Clinicians have contributed state of the art chapters on their respective areas of expertise, providing the reader a whole field view of the CNS tumors and brain tumor imaging in Europe. This fully illustrated volume: Explains the genetics of malignant brain tumors and gene amplification using quantitative-PCR; Presents a large number of standard and new imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, amide proton transfer imaging, positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, magnetic resonance single voxel spectroscopy and intraoperative ultrasound imaging, for staging and diagnosing various primary and secondary brain cancers; Explains the usefulness of imaging methods for planning and monitoring (assessment) therapy for cancers; Discusses diagnosis and treatment of primary CNS lymphomas, CNS atypical teratoid/rhabdoid and CNS Rosai-Dorfman disease; Includes the subject of translational medicine. Professor Hayat has summarized the problems associated with the complexities of research publications and has been successful in editing a must-read volume for oncologists, cancer researchers, medical teachers and students of cancer biology.

• Cancer Methods
• surgical oncology
• Radiaton Oncology

• Dept. Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, USA

  M. A. Hayat

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