Chemotherapy of gliomas : : Basic research, experiences and results / / ed. by C. Langmaid, D. Voth, P. Glees, P. Krauseneck.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- I. Special and comparative pathology of the gliomas – experimental findings
- Classification of supratentorial gliomas
- Remarks on classification and "grading" (Brief communication)
- Problems in the histological grading of human gliomas
- Comparative aspects of spontaneous gliomas in animals (Brief communications)
- Cell-mediated immune response during progressive glioma growth
- Application of immunohistological techniques to the diagnosis of gliomas
- Flow cytometry and micronucleus formation in brain tumours
- Comparative impulsecytophotometric DNA investigations of glioblastomas, oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas
- Repair of O6-alkylguanine in cellular DNA: significance for tumour induction and chemotherapy
- Escape phenomenon of glioma cells to allogenic lymphocytes and rhythmically altered protein synthesis encoded by signal transfer
- Microscopical investigations on cell death in experimental gliomas in rats
- Human glioma xenografts in nude mice: experimental model for pre-clinical chemo-radiotherapy studies
- Mononuclear infiltrates in human brain tumours – possible morphological equivalence of an immunological defence reaction
- II. General and specialised diagnostic methods for intrinsic brain tumours
- Correlation between grade of malignancy of gliomas and their computer tomographic density values
- Cerebral gliomas studied with positron emission tomography
- Remarks on the follow-up of cerebellar astrocytomas (Brief communication)
- Cerebral cysticercosis – a contribution to the differential diagnosis of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas
- Measurement of intracranial pressure. Technique and indications
- Intracranial pressure monitoring in postoperative treatment of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas (Brief communication)
- EEG, SEP and VEP examinations during the treatment of malignant gliomas
- CEA and TPA in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with intracranial tumours
- Sensitivity of human malignant brain tumours to chemotherapeutic agents as detected by the pro-assay: preliminary results of an in vivo/in vitro correlation
- III. Principles of operative treatment and radiation therapy
- Changes induced in anaplastic gliomas and brain tissue as a result of treatment
- Microsurgical management of gliomas
- Management of malignant gliomas. A ten year survey at the Neurosurgical Department of Rennes
- Re-operating on malignant gliomas: Indications, problems and results
- The Ommaya reservoir and its significance for intrathecal cytostatic treatment. Surgical aspects and complications
- The significance of age as a factor in the prognosis of surgically treated cerebral gliomas (Brief communication)
- Quality of life following microsurgical removal of glioblastomas (Brief communication)
- Neuropsychological studies under the therapy of malignant gliomas
- Quality of life in patients with malignant brain tumours
- Postoperative rapid course irradiation of the glioblastoma
- CT-stereotactic interstitial irradiation therapy of non resectable and reentrant intracranial tumour in children and adolescents
- Treatment of astrocymatomas grade DI and IV with high-dose irradiation and misonidazole: preliminary report
- Reflections on the radiation treatment of gliomas
- Therapeutic results in malignant gliomas with special respect to radiotherapy
- Pseudo-recurrence in malignant brain tumours
- Histological-cytological study of the effects of misonidazole and some related substances on the nervous system
- Local, intratumoral chemotherapy of brain gliomas in the rat, using adriamycin – a preliminary report
- IV. Chemotherapy: Basic principles, experiences, results and alternative procedures
- Principles of cancer treatment with cytostatic agents (Brief communication)
- Chemotherapy of malignant gliomas – present state of treatment (Brief communication)
- Chemotherapy of malignant supratentorial gliomas in adult: a ten-year experience of the EORTC Brain Tumour Group
- Characterization of human malignant brain tumour cells in vitro and comparison of three different in vitro assays to determine their sensitivity to BCNU
- Combined modality treatment of operated astrocytomas grade 3–4. A prospective and randomized study of misonidazole and radiotherapy with two different radiation schedules and subsequent CCNU chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy of gliomas in adults and of medulloblastoma in children
- Combined radiation and polychemotherapy (COMP) in the postoperative treatment of high-grade supratentorial gliomas
- Combined chemotherapy of inoperable and operable malignant gliomas
- Mono-treatment of malignant glioma with a derivate of nitrosourea, ACNU (first results)
- Retrospective study on the effect of CCNU and radiotherapy in 44 patients with malignant glioma
- The treatment of brain tumours and brain metastases with a combination of Ifosfamid, BCNU and radiotherapy – preliminary results (Brief communication)
- Intra-arterial therapy of malignant gliomas with ACNU and BCNU in combination with phénobarbital protection (preliminary results)
- Critical analysis of therapy in long-term surviving patients with glioblastoma multiforme
- Preoperative chemo- and/or radiotherapy: its possible role in the treatment of malignant brain gliomas (Brief communication)
- The present state of development of multistage treatment of cancer. Fundamental principles of the two-stage regional hyperthermia technique, using the "Selectotherm" procedure, as well as the heat sensitisation of cancer tissue by means of hyperglycaemia (Brief communication)
- Hyperthermia-radiotherapy of the gliomas – a critical report
- Planning, realization and evaluation of clinical trials: some statistical aspects
- V. Summary of the present state of chemotherapy of the supratentorial gliomas
- List of contributors
- Author's index
- Subject index
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