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| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
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CHAPTER 2 (GLIOMAS, GLIONEURONAL TUMOURS, AND NEURONAL TUMOURS) |
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| Astrocytoma, IDH-mutant | Disease | Meenakshi Mehrotra | 6/25/2023 | COMPLETE | Laveniya Satgunaseelan (LS) | 2021 template added | |||
| Oligodendroglioma, IDH-mutant and 1p/19q-codeleted | Disease | Riley Lochner (trainee);
Shashi Shetty (mentor) |
6/7/2022 | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added | |||
| Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype | Disease | Jieying Wu | 11/18/2025 | 01/15/2026 | PENDING | LS | Moved from "Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype" to new page; 2021 template added | ||
| Diffuse astrocytoma, MYB- or MYBL1-altered | Disease | Scott Smith | 6/27/2023 | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added (page created 6/27/23) | |||
| Angiocentric glioma | Disease | ||||||||
| Polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumour of the young | Disease | ||||||||
| Diffuse low-grade glioma, MAPK pathway-altered | Disease | Scott Smith | 5/3/2024 | PENDING - email reminder 9/4/2025 | LS | ||||
| Diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27-altered | Disease | Laveniya Satgunaseelan | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added | ||||
| Diffuse hemispheric glioma, H3 G34-mutant | Disease | Xiaolin (Lynn) Hu | 2/21/2022 | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added | |||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Diffuse paediatric-type high-grade glioma, H3-wildtype and IDH-wildtype | Disease | Madina Sukhanova | 10/28/2022 | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added | |||
| Infant-type hemispheric glioma | Disease | ||||||||
| Pilocytic astrocytoma | Disease | Layla Zhu | 3/2/2026 |
PENDING | LS | 2021 template added | |||
| High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features | Disease | Wahab Khan | 2/8/2026 | PENDING | |||||
| Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma | Disease | Wahab Khan | 15/04/2025 | COMPLETE | 2/8/2026 (Feb 8) | LS | 2021 template added | ||
| Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Chordoid glioma | Disease | ||||||||
| Astroblastoma, MN1-altered | Disease | Milana.Djonovic (trainee), Laveniya/Madina | 4/26/2026 | 6/15/2026 | PENDING | LS | |||
| Ganglioglioma | Disease | Leila Moayed-Aloei | 6/30/2022 | COMPLETE | LS | 2021 template added | |||
| Gangliocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma / desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Diffuse glioneuronal tumour with oligodendroglioma-like features and nuclear clusters | Disease | ||||||||
| Papillary glioneuronal tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Myxoid glioneuronal tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumour | Disease | Laveniya Satgunaseelan | 9/11/2024 | COMPLETE | 8/7/2025 | LS | LS | Used for testing 9/2024 somatic template | |
| Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease) | Disease | ||||||||
| Central neurocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Extraventricular neurocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Cerebellar liponeurocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Supratentorial ependymoma | Disease | Laveniya Satgunaseelan | 2/4/2026 | 30/6/2026 | PENDING | ||||
| Supratentorial ependymoma, ZFTA fusion-positive | Disease | Laveniya Satgunaseelan | 2/4/2026 | 30/6/2026 | PENDING | ||||
| Supratentorial ependymoma, YAP1 fusion-positive | Disease | Laveniya Satgunaseelan | 2/4/2026 | 30/6/2026 | PENDING | ||||
| Posterior fossa ependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Posterior fossa group B (PFB) ependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Spinal ependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Spinal ependymoma, MYCN-amplified | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Myxopapillary ependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Subependymoma | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 3 (CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOURS) |
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| Choroid plexus papilloma | Disease | ||||||||
| Atypical choroid plexus papilloma | Disease | ||||||||
| Choroid plexus carcinoma | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 4 (EMBRYONAL TUMOURS) |
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| Medulloblastoma, WNT-activated | Disease | Lisa Lansdon, PhD (LGG trainee just finished);
Midhat Farooqi, MD (mentor), Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City |
9/20/21 | COMPLETE | Holli Drendel (interim)/Laveniya Satgunaseelan (LS) | 9/22/2022 | 2021 template added | ||
| Medulloblastoma, SHH-activated and TP53-wildtype | Disease | ||||||||
| Medulloblastoma, SHH-activated and TP53-mutant | Disease | Hannah Wollenzien | 1/11/2026 | Pending | MS | ||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Medulloblastoma, non-WNT/non-SHH | Disease | ||||||||
| Medulloblastoma, histologically defined | Disease | ||||||||
| Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Cribriform neuroepithelial tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Embryonal tumour with multilayered rosettes | Disease | ||||||||
| CNS neuroblastoma, FOXR2-activated | Disease | ||||||||
| CNS tumour with BCOR internal tandem duplication | Disease | ||||||||
| CNS embryonal tumour NEC/NOS | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 5 (PINEAL TUMOURS) |
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| Pineocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Pineal parenchymal tumour of intermediate differentiation | Disease | ||||||||
| Pineoblastoma | Disease | Fang Fang (trainee)+Katie Schieffer (mentor) | 11/19/2025 | 6/15/2026 | Pending | LS | |||
| Papillary tumour of the pineal region | Disease | ||||||||
| Desmoplastic myxoid tumour of the pineal region, SMARCB1-mutant | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 6 (CRANIAL AND PARASPINAL NERVE TUMOURS) |
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| Schwannoma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Neurofibroma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Perineurioma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Hybrid nerve sheath tumours | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumour | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Cauda equina neuroendocrine tumour (previously paraganglioma) | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 7 (MENINGIOMA) |
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| Meningioma | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 8 (MESENCHYMAL, NON-MENINGOTHELIAL TUMOURS INVOLVING THE CNS) |
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| Solitary fibrous tumour | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Haemangiomas and vascular malformations | Disease | ||||||||
| Haemangioblastoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Rhabdomyosarcoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Intracranial mesenchymal tumour, FET::CREB fusion-positive | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| CIC-rearranged sarcoma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Primary intracranial sarcoma, DICER1-mutant | Disease | ||||||||
| Ewing sarcoma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma | Disease | See STBT5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Chondrosarcoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Chordoma | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 9 (MELANOCYTIC TUMOURS) |
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| Diffuse meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytosis and melanomatosis | Disease | ||||||||
| Circumscribed meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytoma and melanoma | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 10 (HAEMATOLYMPHOID TUMOURS INVOLVING THE CNS) |
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| Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the CNS | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Immunodeficiency-associated CNS lymphomas | Disease | ||||||||
| Lymphomatoid granulomatosis | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| MALT lymphoma of the dura | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Other low-grade B-cell lymphomas of the CNS | Disease | ||||||||
| Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALK+/ALK−) | Disease | Jennie Thurston | 7/2/2023 | PENDING | MS | 2021 template added; Did not yet convert to CNS5 namespace. Should Jennie instead do the related two pages in HAEM5 of "ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma - Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (ccga.io)" and "ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma - Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (ccga.io)"? | |||
| T-cell and NK/T-cell lymphomas | Disease | ||||||||
| Erdheim-Chester disease | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Rosai-Dorfman disease | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Juvenile xanthogranuloma | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Langerhans cell histiocytosis | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Histiocytic sarcoma | Disease | See HAEM5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
CHAPTER 11 (GERM CELL TUMOURS) |
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| Germ cell tumours of the CNS | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 12 (TUMOURS OF THE SELLAR REGION |
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| Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma | Disease | ||||||||
| Papillary craniopharyngioma | Disease | ||||||||
| Pituicytoma, granular cell tumour of the sellar region, and spindle cell oncocytoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Pituitary adenoma / pituitary neuroendocrine tumour | Disease | ||||||||
| Pituitary blastoma | Disease | ||||||||
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CHAPTER 13 (METASTASES TO THE CNS) |
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| Metastases to the brain and spinal cord parenchyma | Disease | ||||||||
| Metastases to the meninges | Disease | ||||||||
CHAPTER 14 (GENETIC TUMOUR SYNDROMES INVOLVING THE CNS) |
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| Neurofibromatosis type 1 | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Neurofibromatosis type 2 | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Schwannomatosis | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Tuberous sclerosis | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Li-Fraumeni syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| Cowden syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Familial adenomatous polyposis 1 | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Rhabdoid tumour predisposition syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Carney complex | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| DICER1 syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Familial paraganglioma syndromes | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Melanoma-astrocytoma syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Familial retinoblastoma | Disease | ||||||||
| Disease | Page Type | Author | Date Assigned to Author | Target Completion Date | Author Content (Pending or Complete) | Date Completed by Author | Associate Editor | Date of Last Editor Review | Notes |
| BAP1 tumour predisposition syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Fanconi anaemia | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| ELP1-medulloblastoma syndrome | Disease | See GTS5 volunteer sheet for authorship status | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |