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01-01-2017 | Editorial
Announcing cIMPACT-NOW: the Consortium to Inform Molecular and Practical Approaches to CNS Tumor Taxonomy
Authors:
David N. Louis, Ken Aldape, Daniel J. Brat, David Capper, David W. Ellison, Cynthia Hawkins, Werner Paulus, Arie Perry, Guido Reifenberger, Dominique Figarella-Branger, Pieter Wesseling, Tracy T. Batchelor, J. Gregory Cairncross, Stefan M. Pfister, Stefan Rutkowski, Michael Weller, Wolfgang Wick, Andreas von Deimling
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Acta Neuropathologica
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Issue 1/2017
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Excerpt
The recent publication of the 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System (2016 CNS WHO) represents a significant advance in the classification of human brain tumors [
1]. For the first time, a CNS WHO classification defines diagnostic entities by combining molecular and histological information. In doing so, the classification facilitates more precise diagnosis of well-understood entities and clearer designation of less-understood entities, which will in turn allow further study and likely future advances in their classifications. …
