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Advances in Biology and Treatment of Glioblastoma

  • Emphasizes on biology and current standard of care as well as promising novel therapeutic approaches in glioblastoma therapy
  • Update on genetically engineered mouse models and their use in preclinical drug development
  • Highlights the distinct nature of pediatric high grade glioma, the most common childhood solid cancer
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Current Cancer Research (CUCR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Maximal Safe Resection in Glioblastoma: Use of Adjuncts

    • Daria Krivosheya, Marcos Vinicius Calfatt Maldaun, Sujit S. Prabhu
    Pages 1-17
  3. Molecular Pathology of Glioblastoma- An Update

    • Vani Santosh, Palavalasa Sravya, Arimappamagan Arivazhagan
    Pages 19-55
  4. Current Therapies and Future Directions in Treatment of Glioblastoma

    • Joshua L. Wang, Luke Mugge, Pierre Giglio, Vinay K. Puduvalli
    Pages 57-89
  5. Recent Advances for Targeted Therapies in Glioblastoma

    • Michael Youssef, Jacob Mandel, Sajeel Chowdhary, Santosh Kesari
    Pages 91-115
  6. Targeting EGFR in Glioblastoma: Molecular Biology and Current Understanding

    • Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, Cristina Zahonero, Pilar Sánchez Gómez
    Pages 117-141
  7. Radiogenomics and Histomics in Glioblastoma: The Promise of Linking Image-Derived Phenotype with Genomic Information

    • Michael Lehrer, Reid T. Powell, Souptik Barua, Donnie Kim, Shivali Narang, Arvind Rao
    Pages 143-159
  8. Next-Generation Sequencing in Glioblastoma Personalized Therapy

    • Jagriti Pal, Vikas Patil, Kumaravel Somasundaram
    Pages 161-190
  9. Glioma Stem-Like Cells in Tumor Growth and Therapy Resistance of Glioblastoma

    • Abhirami Visvanathan, Kumaravel Somasundaram
    Pages 191-218
  10. Pediatric High Grade Glioma

    • Chitra Sarkar, Suvendu Purkait, Pankaj Pathak, Prerana Jha
    Pages 241-266
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-272

About this book

This volume covers the most important areas of glioblastoma – surgical resection, molecular pathology, targeted therapies, cancer stem cells, the role of DNA methylation, targeted sequencing for personalized therapy, animal models and advances in pediatric glioblastoma. Chapter authors are junior and senior investigators, who are well established in their particular areas and include neurosurgeons, neuropathologists, neurooncologists and basic scientists. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

    Kumaravel Somasundaram

About the editor

Kumaravel Somasundaram, BVSc, MSc, PhD, is Professor, Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Biology and Treatment of Glioblastoma

  • Editors: Kumaravel Somasundaram

  • Series Title: Current Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56820-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56819-5Published: 11 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86010-7Published: 13 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56820-1Published: 29 June 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2199-2584

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-2592

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cancer Research

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