User profiles for Eric Bouffet

Eric Bouffet

Haematology/Oncology - Child Health Evaluative Sciences
Verified email at sickkids.ca
Cited by 46375

Immune checkpoint inhibition for hypermutant glioblastoma multiforme resulting from germline biallelic mismatch repair deficiency

E Bouffet, V Larouche, BB Campbell… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is incurable with current therapies. Biallelic
mismatch repair deficiency (bMMRD) is a highly penetrant childhood cancer syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Dabrafenib plus Trametinib in Pediatric Glioma with BRAF V600 Mutations

E Bouffet, JR Hansford, ML Garrè, J Hara… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Detection of the BRAF V600E mutation in pediatric low-grade glioma has been
associated with a lower response to standard chemotherapy. In previous trials, dabrafenib (…

[HTML][HTML] Medulloblastoma comprises four distinct molecular variants

…, CG Eberhart, S Mack, E Bouffet… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Recent genomic approaches have suggested the existence of multiple distinct
subtypes of medulloblastoma. We studied a large cohort of medulloblastomas to determine how …

Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes

…, YJ Cho, GD Bader, U Tabori, CE Hawkins, E Bouffet… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour, is currently treated
with nonspecific cytotoxic therapies including surgery, whole-brain radiation, and aggressive …

[PDF][PDF] Intertumoral heterogeneity within medulloblastoma subgroups

…, A Huang, CE Hawkins, U Tabori, E Bouffet… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
While molecular subgrouping has revolutionized medulloblastoma classification, the extent
of heterogeneity within subgroups is unknown. Similarity network fusion (SNF) applied to …

K27M mutation in histone H3. 3 defines clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas

…, P Rakopoulos, XY Liu, AM Fontebasso, E Bouffet… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
Pediatric glioblastomas (GBM) including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) are
devastating brain tumors with no effective therapy. Here, we investigated clinical and biological …

Novel mutations target distinct subgroups of medulloblastoma

…, D Finkelstein, DW Ellison, CC Lau, E Bouffet… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma is a malignant childhood brain tumour comprising four discrete subgroups.
Here, to identify mutations that drive medulloblastoma, we sequenced the entire genomes …

Diffuse brainstem glioma in children: critical review of clinical trials

D Hargrave, U Bartels, E Bouffet - The lancet oncology, 2006 - thelancet.com
Diffuse intrinsic brainstem gliomas constitute 15–20% of all CNS tumours in children, and are
the main cause of death in children with brain tumours. Many clinical trials have been done …

[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive analysis of hypermutation in human cancer

…, C Durno, MD Taylor, G Rechavi, JM Maris, E Bouffet… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We present an extensive assessment of mutation burden through sequencing analysis of >81,000
tumors from pediatric and adult patients, including tumors with hypermutation caused …

Genomic analysis of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas identifies three molecular subgroups and recurrent activating ACVR1 mutations

…, M Dzamba, A Morrison, P Lewis, E Bouffet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a fatal brain cancer that arises in the brainstem of
children, with no effective treatment and near 100% fatality. The failure of most therapies can …