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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
CHAPTER 2 (GLIOMAS, GLIONEURONAL TUMOURS, AND NEURONAL TUMOURS)
Astrocytoma, IDH-mutant	Disease	Meenakshi Mehrotra	6/25/2023		PENDING		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	Meenakshi Mehrotra			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		PENDING		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
Diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27-altered	Disease	Laveniya Satgunaseelan (Linda Cooley - previous version)			PENDING		LS		2021 template added
Diffuse hemispheric glioma, H3 G34-mutant	Disease	Xiaolin (Lynn) Hu	2/21/2022		COMPLETE		LS		2021 template added
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	Jeremy Pulvers	9/13/2022		PENDING		LS		2021 template added
High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features	Disease
Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma	Disease						LS		2021 template added
Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma	Disease
Chordoid glioma	Disease
Astroblastoma, MN1-altered	Disease
Ganglioglioma	Disease	Leila Moayed-Aloei	6/30/2022		COMPLETE		LS		2021 template added
Gangliocytoma	Disease
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
Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour	Disease
Dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease)	Disease
Central neurocytoma	Disease
Extraventricular neurocytoma	Disease
Cerebellar liponeurocytoma	Disease
Supratentorial ependymoma	Disease
Supratentorial ependymoma, ZFTA fusion-positive	Disease
Supratentorial ependymoma, YAP1 fusion-positive	Disease
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
Myxopapillary ependymoma	Disease
Subependymoma	Disease
CHAPTER 3 (CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOURS)
Choroid plexus papilloma	Disease
Atypical choroid plexus papilloma	Disease
Choroid plexus carcinoma	Disease
CHAPTER 4 (EMBRYONAL TUMOURS)
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
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)
Pineocytoma	Disease
Pineal parenchymal tumour of intermediate differentiation	Disease
Pineoblastoma	Disease
Papillary tumour of the pineal region	Disease
Desmoplastic myxoid tumour of the pineal region, SMARCB1-mutant	Disease
CHAPTER 6 (CRANIAL AND PARASPINAL NERVE TUMOURS)
Schwannoma	Disease
Neurofibroma	Disease
Perineurioma	Disease
Hybrid nerve sheath tumours	Disease
Malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumour	Disease
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour	Disease
Cauda equina neuroendocrine tumour (previously paraganglioma)	Disease
CHAPTER 7 (MENINGIOMA)
Meningioma	Disease
CHAPTER 8 (MESENCHYMAL, NON-MENINGOTHELIAL TUMOURS INVOLVING THE CNS)
Solitary fibrous tumour	Disease
Haemangiomas and vascular malformations	Disease
Haemangioblastoma	Disease
Rhabdomyosarcoma	Disease
Intracranial mesenchymal tumour, FET::CREB fusion-positive	Disease
CIC-rearranged sarcoma	Disease
Primary intracranial sarcoma, DICER1-mutant	Disease
Ewing sarcoma	Disease
Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma	Disease
Chondrosarcoma	Disease
Chordoma	Disease
CHAPTER 9 (MELANOCYTIC TUMOURS)
Diffuse meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytosis and melanomatosis	Disease
Circumscribed meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytoma and melanoma	Disease
CHAPTER 10 (HAEMATOLYMPHOID TUMOURS INVOLVING THE CNS)
Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the CNS	Disease
Immunodeficiency-associated CNS lymphomas	Disease
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis	Disease
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma	Disease
MALT lymphoma of the dura	Disease
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
Rosai-Dorfman disease	Disease
Juvenile xanthogranuloma	Disease
Langerhans cell histiocytosis	Disease
Histiocytic sarcoma	Disease
CHAPTER 11 (GERM CELL TUMOURS)
Germ cell tumours of the CNS	Disease
CHAPTER 12 (TUMOURS OF THE SELLAR REGION
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
CHAPTER 13 (METASTASES TO THE CNS)
Metastases to the brain and spinal cord parenchyma	Disease
Metastases to the meninges	Disease
CHAPTER 14 (GENETIC TUMOUR SYNDROMES INVOLVING THE CNS)
Neurofibromatosis type 1	Disease	Ngoni Faya (trainee) + Madina Sukhanova							NOT YET CREATED - See page "Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1)" in GTS5 book to finish first. Then will make this page for this other book to refer to GTS5 page and include this body site's specific content.
Neurofibromatosis type 2	Disease
Schwannomatosis	Disease
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome	Disease
Tuberous sclerosis	Disease
Li-Fraumeni syndrome	Disease
Cowden syndrome	Disease
Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome	Disease	Jennie Thurston	7/2/2023		PENDING		LS		NOT YET CREATED - See page "Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency (CMMRD) Syndrome (MLH1, PMS2, MSH2, MSH6)" in GTS5 book to finish first. Then will make this page for this other book to refer to GTS5 page and include this body site's specific content.
Familial adenomatous polyposis 1	Disease	Jennifer Laffin	8/22/2023		PENDING		LS/MS		NOT YET CREATED - See page "Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency (CMMRD) Syndrome (MLH1, PMS2, MSH2, MSH6)" in GTS5 book to finish first. Then will make this page for this other book to refer to GTS5 page and include this body site's specific content.
Naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome	Disease
Rhabdoid tumour predisposition syndrome	Disease
Carney complex	Disease
DICER1 syndrome	Disease	Jennie Thurston	7/2/2023		PENDING		LS		NOT YET CREATED - See page "DICER1-Related Tumour Predisposition Syndrome (DICER1)" in GTS5 book to finish first. Then will make this page for this other book to refer to GTS5 page and include this body site's specific content.
Familial paraganglioma syndromes	Disease
Melanoma-astrocytoma syndrome	Disease
Familial retinoblastoma	Disease
BAP1 tumour predisposition syndrome	Disease
Fanconi anaemia	Disease
ELP1-medulloblastoma syndrome	Disease