Mechanisms of radiotherapy-associated cognitive disability in patients with brain tumours

MT Makale, CR McDonald… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Standard treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumours includes high-dose
megavoltage-range radiation to the cranial vault. About half of patients survive> 6 months …

Radiation-induced brain injury: a review

D Greene-Schloesser, ME Robbins, AM Peiffer… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Approximately 100,000 primary and metastatic brain tumor patients/year in the US survive
long enough (> 6 months) to experience radiation-induced brain injury. Prior to 1970, the …

Reduced cognitive deficits after FLASH irradiation of whole mouse brain are associated with less hippocampal dendritic spine loss and neuroinflammation

DA Simmons, FM Lartey, E Schüler, M Rafat… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aim To evaluate the impact of ultra-rapid FLASH mouse whole brain irradiation on
hippocampal dendritic spines and neuroinflammation, factors associated with cognitive …

Ionizing radiation-induced immune and inflammatory reactions in the brain

K Lumniczky, T Szatmári, G Sáfrány - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Radiation-induced late brain injury consisting of vascular abnormalities, demyelination,
white matter necrosis, and cognitive impairment has been described in patients subjected to …

Radiation, inflammation and the immune response in cancer

KJ McKelvey, AL Hudson, M Back, T Eade… - Mammalian genome, 2018 - Springer
Radiation is an important component of cancer treatment with more than half of all patients
receive radiotherapy during their cancer experience. While the impact of radiation on tumour …

The molecular profile of microglia under the influence of glioma

W Li, MB Graeber - Neuro-oncology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Microglia, which contribute substantially to the tumor mass of glioblastoma, have been
shown to play an important role in glioma growth and invasion. While a large number of …

Molecular pathways: radiation-induced cognitive impairment

D Greene-Schloesser, E Moore, ME Robbins - Clinical cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Abstract Each year, approximately 200,000 patients in the United States will receive partial-
or whole-brain irradiation for the treatment of primary or metastatic brain cancer. Early and …

Radiation-induced cognitive impairment-from bench to bedside

D Greene-Schloesser, ME Robbins - Neuro-oncology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Approximately 100 000 patients per year in the United States with primary and metastatic
brain tumor survive long enough (> 6 months) to develop radiation-induced brain injury …

Molecular, cellular and functional effects of radiation-induced brain injury: a review

S Balentova, M Adamkov - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Radiation therapy is the most effective non-surgical treatment of primary brain tumors and
metastases. Preclinical studies have provided valuable insights into pathogenesis of …

Metabolic therapy: a new paradigm for managing malignant brain cancer

TN Seyfried, R Flores, AM Poff, DP D'Agostino… - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Little progress has been made in the long-term management of glioblastoma multiforme
(GBM), considered among the most lethal of brain cancers. Cytotoxic chemotherapy …