anticonvulsant/neoplasms

To investigate the efficacy of anticonvulsants or antidepressants in combination pharmacotherapy for treatment of neuropathic pain in cancer patients. We systematically searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the metaRegister of Controlled Trials for

BACKGROUND Procarbazine usage in brain tumors has a high incidence of hypersensitivity reactions compared with its use in other malignancies. Procarbazine oxidation to a reactive intermediate is enhanced by phenobarbital. Patients with primary brain tumors would have a preferential exposure to

The responsiveness of lymphocytes obtained from patients with brain tumors to in vitro stimulation with mitogenic lectins was examined. The previously reported finding of decreased responsiveness was confirmed. To investigate the factors responsible for the hyporesponsiveness, mitogen

BACKGROUND High grade astrocytomas remain uniformly fatal despite aggressive surgery and radiotherapy. As existing chemotherapeutic agents are of limited benefit, clinical trials are underway to screen new drugs, such as 9-aminocamptothecin (9-AC), for activity in high grade

Cancer incidence among 8,004 patients hospitalized for epilepsy between 1933 and 1962 in the Filadelfia treatment community in Denmark was compared to that of the general population. Patients received powerful and prolonged treatment with phenobarbital, phenytoin, and other anticonvulsants. This new

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of childhood brain tumor occurrence in relation to epilepsy and anticonvulsant use. METHODS As part of a multicenter case-control study of pediatric brain tumors, maternal report on epilepsy occurrence before diagnosis of her child's brain tumor was collected for 540

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of radiotherapy and other medical interventions on cognitive functioning in patients with a low-grade glioma (LGG). METHODS Cross-sectional study. METHODS A total of 195 LGG patients, of whom 104 had received radiotherapy 1-22 years previously, were compared to 100

Over 2000 epileptic patients admitted to the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy between 1931 and 1971 and taking anticonvulsants were followed up to the end of 1977. Mortality between 1951 and 1977 was greatly in excess of that in the general population of England and Wales in that period allowing for age

Cancer incidence among 3,727 offspring of women hospitalised for epilepsy in Denmark between 1933 and 1962 was evaluated in a record-linkage survey with the national cancer registry. The children were identified from hospital charts, population listings, and parish registries. For all children (born

The well-done systematic review included a moderate number of patients from randomized controlled trials with an objective diagnosis of a brain tumor. There were mild differences between the 5 studies used in the systematic review with patients in 3 of the studies undergoing surgical resection or

The lifetime risk of patients with brain tumours to have focal epileptic seizures is 20-80%. Based on current evidence the management of tumour-related seizures does not differ substantially from that applied to epilepsies from other aetiologies. Therefore, the choice of an anticonvulsant is based,

Patients who undergo craniotomy for brain tumor resection are prone to experiencing seizures, which can have debilitating medical, neurological, and psychosocial effects. A controversial issue in neurosurgery is the common practice of administering perioperative anticonvulsant prophylaxis to these

BACKGROUND Anticonvulsants/antiepileptics inhibit high-frequency firing of action potentials that occur during an epileptic seizure, by mechanisms such as blocking sodium and calcium ion conductances. High sodium channel expression has been previously associated with aggressive behavior of prostate

OBJECTIVE We conducted a clinical trial to determine if prophylactic anticonvulsants in brain tumour patients (without prior seizures) reduced seizure frequency. We stopped accrual at 100 patients on the basis of the interim analysis. METHODS One hundred newly diagnosed brain tumour patients

20 patients with neuropathic pain syndromes due to tumor-infiltration, who had not responded to conventional analgesics including strong opioids, received additional combination anti-convulsant and anti-depressant treatment. Pain amelioration occurred in all patients within median 46 h, and maximum