Beyond the blood: brain barrier: the importance of central nervous system (CNS) pharmacokinetics for the treatment of CNS tumors, including diffuse intrinsic pontine …

KE Warren - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the past decade, we have made considerable progress in establishing diffuse intrinsic
pontine glioma (DIPG) as a disease entity and developing preclinical tools to interrogate …

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: from diagnosis to next-generation clinical trials

NA Vitanza, M Monje - Current treatment options in neurology, 2019 - Springer
Purpose of review This review of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) provides clinical
background, a systematic approach to diagnosis and initial care, and synthesizes historical …

Upfront biology-guided therapy in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: therapeutic, molecular, and biomarker outcomes from PNOC003

C Kline, P Jain, L Kilburn, ER Bonner, N Gupta… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: PNOC003 is a multicenter precision medicine trial for children and young adults
with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Patients and Methods: Patients …

Pediatric diffuse midline gliomas: an unfinished puzzle

V Di Ruscio, G Del Baldo, F Fabozzi, M Vinci… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is a heterogeneous group of aggressive pediatric brain tumors
with a fatal prognosis. The biological hallmark in the major part of the cases is H3K27 …

[HTML][HTML] Role of radiation therapy in the management of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a systematic review

M Gallitto, S Lazarev, I Wasserman, JM Stafford… - Advances in Radiation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is the most aggressive primary pediatric
brain tumor, with< 10% of children surviving 2 years. Radiation therapy (RT) remains the …

New developments in the pathogenesis, therapeutic targeting, and treatment of H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma

DP Argersinger, SR Rivas, AH Shah, S Jackson… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma is a rare childhood cancer
originating in midline brain structures. The H3K27M mutation substitutes an amino acid on …

Pediatric glioblastoma target-specific efficient delivery of gemcitabine across the blood–brain barrier via carbon nitride dots

PY Liyanage, Y Zhou, AO Al-Youbi, AS Bashammakh… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Pediatric glioblastomas are known to be one of the most dangerous and life-threatening
cancers among many others regardless of the low number of cases reported. The major …

Molecular profiling and targeted therapy in pediatric gliomas: review and consensus recommendations

Z Miklja, A Pasternak, S Stallard, T Nicolaides… - Neuro …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As the field of neuro-oncology makes headway in uncovering the key oncogenic drivers in
pediatric glioma, the role of precision diagnostics and therapies continues to rapidly evolve …

Statistical methods and data visualisation of patient-reported outcomes in early phase dose-finding oncology trials: a methodological review

E Alger, A Minchom, OL Aiyegbusi, M Schipper… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Traditionally, within dose-finding clinical trials, treatment toxicity and tolerability
are assessed by clinicians. Research has shown that clinician reporting may have …

A phase I/II study of bevacizumab, irinotecan and erlotinib in children with progressive diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

FE El-Khouly, SEM Veldhuijzen van Zanten… - Journal of Neuro …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction This study investigates the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of
combined treatment with VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab, topoisomerase I inhibitor irinotecan …