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A case of concordant oligodendroglioma in monozygotic twins is reported. The twins were also concordant for uterine leiomyoma and one twin partner had fibroadenoma and lipoma of the breast and myelofibrosis. As very few cases of concordant glioma in monozygotic twins have been published and no such cases in dizygotic twins, a genetic influence in the aetiology of glioma can only be suggested.
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PMID:Concordant cerebral oligodendroglioma in identical twins. 373 27

Cultured human cancer cells from the nervous system, which included brain cancers, neuroblastomas, medulloblastomas, and retinoblastomas, were analyzed by analytical flow cytometry for the presence of membrane-associated human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), its subunits, and fragments. Live cells and a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed to epitopes located in three different sites of the hCG molecule were used in the analysis. For in vivo studies, the cultured human glioma cells were grown in athymic (nude) mice, and their tumors were excised and fixed in Bouin's fixative, and embedded in paraffin for subsequent immunocytochemical analysis of tissue sections. Cells from a benign uterine leiomyoma were used as a negative control. Membrane-associated and cytoplasmic hCG, its subunits, and its fragments were present in cells from all the cancers studied. These results correlate with our in vitro and in vivo studies which showed the presence of translatable levels of hCG beta mRNA in all cancers, including the cancers of the nervous system, proving that these malignant neoplasms are no different from carcinomas, sarcomas, malignant lymphomas, or leukemias in that they all have the same biochemical denominator. Our findings give the scientific basis for the use of active and/or passive immunization against hCG for prevention or as a primary adjuvant therapy for these types of cancers.
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PMID:Detection of membrane-associated human chorionic gonadotropin and its subunits on human cultured cancer cells of the nervous system. 923 19

Non-invasive transcranial high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFUS) therapy given under MRI thermometry and image guidance to awake patients lying within the bore of a 1.5 T MRI scanner (a) to thermally ablate brain lesions such as metastases, (b) to cause precise ablative brain lesions in functional disorders, or (c) to locally open the blood-brain-barrier for targeted therapeutic construct delivery--without the radiation risks of stereotactic radiotherapy--may sound science fiction. Kullervo Hynynen, a Finnish-born ultrasound and MRI physicist, and Ferenc Jolesz, a Hungarian-born neurosurgeon and visionary of image guided surgery, have joined forces at Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, and they have taken every step to realize the vision above, in highly successful collaboration with the industry (GE, InSightec, TxSonics). The sophisticated transcranial HIFUS instrumentation, supported by profound research data from experimental animals and by the clinical experience from extracranial HIFUS targets (breast fibroadenoma, uterine fibroid), is now coming to a phase I clinical trial in cerebral metastases. It remains to be seen whether transcranial HIFUS will find applications in diffuse gliomas such as (a) thermal ablation of selected areas of glioma tissue, (b) opening the blood-brain-barrier for therapeutic constructs to enter selected areas, or (c) activating such constructs in desired areas. The prophecy of Dr. Jolesz, "this technology will put neurosurgeons out of business", may not fulfill during our lifetime.
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PMID:Non-invasive transcranial high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFUS) under MRI thermometry and guidance in the treatment of brain lesions. 1453 62