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Bruce Crooks

Associate Professor of Paediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dalhousie University
Verified email at iwk.nshealth.ca
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[HTML][HTML] Alterations in ALK/ROS1/NTRK/MET drive a group of infantile hemispheric gliomas

…, A Oviedo, PD McNeely, B Crooks… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Infant gliomas have paradoxical clinical behavior compared to those in children and adults:
low-grade tumors have a higher mortality rate, while high-grade tumors have a better …

Cidofovir for cytomegalovirus infection and disease in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients

…, M Bornhäuser, S Cesaro, B Crooks… - Blood, The Journal …, 2001 - ashpublications.org
A retrospective study was performed to collect information regarding efficacy and toxicity of
cidofovir (CDV) in allogeneic stem cell transplant patients. Data were available on 82 patients…

[HTML][HTML] Alterations in ALK/ROS1/NTRK/MET drive a group of infantile hemispheric gliomas

…, A Oviedo, PD McNeely, B Crooks… - Nature …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Infant gliomas have paradoxical clinical behavior compared to those in children and adults:
low-grade tumors have a higher mortality rate, while high-grade tumors have a better …

Survival benefit for individuals with constitutional mismatch repair deficiency undergoing surveillance

…, S Chiaravalli, S Constantini, B Crooks… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome (CMMRD) is a lethal cancer
predisposition syndrome characterized by early-onset synchronous and metachronous …

Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors: a Canadian pediatric brain tumor consortium report

…, P Steinbok, L Sung, AS Carret, B Crooks… - Journal of neuro …, 2008 - Springer
Introduction Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors (SPNET) are rare tumors
accounting for only 2.5% of childhood brain tumors. The purpose of this study was to describe the …

Germline-driven replication repair-deficient high-grade gliomas exhibit unique hypomethylation patterns

…, S Lindhorst, M Yalon, G Mason, B Crooks… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Replication repair deficiency (RRD) leading to hypermutation is an important driving
mechanism of high-grade glioma (HGG) occurring predominantly in the context of germline …

Medulloblastoma in the second decade of life: a specific group with respect to toxicity and management: a Canadian Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study

U Tabori, L Sung, J Hukin, N Laperriere, B Crooks… - Cancer, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Most reported data of chemoradiotherapy protocols for the treatment of
medulloblastoma describe children who were treated in the first decade of life. To consider the …

Choroid plexus tumors in children less than 36 months: the Canadian Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (CPBTC) experience

…, AS Carret, C Fryer, J Brossard, B Crooks… - Child's Nervous …, 2011 - Springer
Background Choroid plexus tumors (CPT) are rare pediatric tumors. A population-based study
on choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC) and choroid plexus papilloma (CPP) was carried out …

Life without mismatch repair

…, IJ Majewski, A Reschke, E Cairney, B Crooks… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Mismatch repair (MMR) is a critical defence against mutation, but we lack quantification of
its activity on different DNA lesions during human life. We performed whole-genome …

[HTML][HTML] Canadian pediatric neuro-oncology standards of practice

…, D Strother, DS Tsang, B Wilson, B Crooks… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Primary CNS tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in pediatrics. It is essential
to understand treatment trends to interpret national survival data. In Canada, children with …