Diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications of the 2021 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system

S Gritsch, TT Batchelor, LN Gonzalez Castro - Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The 2016 revised fourth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of
central nervous system (CNS) tumors incorporated molecular features with histologic …

DNA methylation profiling: an emerging paradigm for cancer diagnosis

A Papanicolau-Sengos, K Aldape - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Histomorphology has been a mainstay of cancer diagnosis in anatomic pathology for many
years. DNA methylation profiling is an additional emerging tool that will serve as an adjunct …

cIMPACT‐NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT‐Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading

DN Louis, P Wesseling, K Aldape, DJ Brat, D Capper… - 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract cIMPACT‐NOW (the Consortium to Inform Molecular and Practical Approaches to
CNS Tumor Taxonomy) was established to evaluate and make practical recommendations …

[HTML][HTML] Practical implementation of DNA methylation and copy-number-based CNS tumor diagnostics: the Heidelberg experience

D Capper, D Stichel, F Sahm, DTW Jones… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
Recently, we described a machine learning approach for classification of central nervous
system tumors based on the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns [6]. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Glioma subclassifications and their clinical significance

R Chen, M Smith-Cohn, AL Cohen, H Colman - Neurotherapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
The impact of targeted therapies in glioma has been modest. All the therapies that have
demonstrated a significant survival benefit for gliomas in Phase III trials, including radiation …

cIMPACT‐NOW update 7: advancing the molecular classification of ependymal tumors

DW Ellison, KD Aldape, D Capper, M Fouladi… - Brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in our understanding of the biological basis and molecular characteristics of
ependymal tumors since the latest iteration of the World Health Organization (WHO) …

Childhood cerebellar tumours mirror conserved fetal transcriptional programs

MC Vladoiu, I El-Hamamy, LK Donovan, H Farooq… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Study of the origin and development of cerebellar tumours has been hampered by the
complexity and heterogeneity of cerebellar cells that change over the course of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular classification of ependymal tumors across all CNS compartments, histopathological grades, and age groups

KW Pajtler, H Witt, M Sill, DTW Jones, V Hovestadt… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Ependymal tumors across age groups are currently classified and graded solely by
histopathology. It is, however, commonly accepted that this classification scheme has limited …

Pediatric brain tumors

YT Udaka, RJ Packer - Neurologic clinics, 2018 - neurologic.theclinics.com
Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors are the second most common childhood
malignancy and the most common solid tumor in children. The incidence rate of childhood …

Glioma

M Weller, W Wick, K Aldape, M Brada… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Gliomas are primary brain tumours that are thought to derive from neuroglial stem or
progenitor cells. On the basis of their histological appearance, they have been traditionally …