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Anja Smits
Senior Researcher
Department of Clinical Neuroscience-
Mental fatigue and cognitive functioning in patients presenting with non-enhancing
gliomas.
Alice Neimantaite, Tomás Gómez Vecchio, Isabelle Rydén, Dima Harba, Asgeir Store Jakola, Anja Smits
Acta Neurochirurgica - 2025 -
Survival prediction with radiomics for patients with IDH mutated lower-grade
glioma
Alice Neimantaite, Louise Carstam, Tomás Gómez Vecchio, Ida Häggström, Tora Dunås, Francesco Latini, Maria Zetterling, Malin Blomstrand, Jiri Bartek, Margret Jensdottir, Erik Thurin, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY - 2025 -
Disparities in end-of-life care and place of death in people with malignant brain tumors-A Swedish registry
study
Anneli Ozanne, Joakim Öhlén, Stina Nyblom, Asgeir Store Jakola, Anja Smits, Cecilia Larsdotter
NEURO-ONCOLOGY PRACTICE - 2024 -
Observations from the first 100 cases of intraoperative MRI - experiences, trends and short-term
outcomes
Hanna Barcheus, Christoffer Peischl, Isabella Björkman-Burtscher, Christina Pettersson, Anja Smits, Daniel Nilsson, Dan Farahmand, Johanna Eriksson, Thomas Skoglund, Alba Corell
BMC SURGERY - 2024 -
Living with glioblastoma - the need for integrated support based on experiences of chaos, loss of autonomy, and isolation in both patients and their
relatives
Pernilla Ståhl, Ingela Henoch, Bertil Rydenhag, Anja Smits, Anneli Ozanne
SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER - 2024 -
Global health status and fatigue score in isocitrate dehydrogenase-mutant diffuse glioma grades 2 and 3: A longitudinal population-based study from surgery to 12-month
follow-up
Tomás Gomez Vecchio, Isabelle Rydén, Anneli Ozanne, Malin Blomstrand, Louise Carstam, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
NEURO-ONCOLOGY PRACTICE - 2024 -
Meningioma classification by immunohistochemistry: A replicability
study.
Olivia Näslund, Anna Lipatnikova, Anna Dénes, Cecilia Lindskog, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola, Alba Corell
Brain & spine - 2023 -
What predicts survival in glioblastoma? A population-based study of changes in clinical management and
outcome.
Boglarka Fekete, Katja Werlenius, Magnus Tisell, Aldina Pivodic, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola, Bertil Rydenhag
Frontiers in surgery - 2023 -
The clinical value of proneural, classical and mesenchymal protein signatures in WHO 2021 adult-type diffuse lower-grade
gliomas.
Anna Dénes, Thomas Olsson , Hanna Barchéus, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Helena Carén, Cecilia Lindskog, Asgeir Store Jakola, Anja Smits
PloS one - 2023 -
Methodological Approaches to Ketogenic Dietary Treatments in Glioma Patients from a Nutritional Point of
View.
Annie Guo, Fredrik Asztely, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Nutrition and cancer - 2023 -
Long-term follow up of patients with WHO grade 2
oligodendroglioma
Louise Carstam, F. Latini, O. Solheim, J. Bartek, L. K. Pedersen, M. Zetterling, S. Beniaminov, K. Sjavik, M. Ryttlefors, M. Jensdottir, Bertil Rydenhag, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Journal of Neuro-Oncology - 2023 -
Stemness and clinical features in relation to the subventricular zone in diffuse lower-grade glioma: an exploratory
study.
Alba Corell, Tomás Gomez Vecchio, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Anna Dénes, Alice Neimantaite, Alexander Hagerius, Hanna Barcheus, Ole Solheim, Cecilia Lindskog, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Helena Carén, Asgeir Store Jakola, Anja Smits
Neuro-oncology advances - 2022 -
Quality of life in patients with glioblastoma and their
relatives.
Pernilla Ståhl, Ingela Henoch, Anja Smits, Bertil Rydenhag, Anneli Ozanne
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 2022 -
ELTD1-deletion reduces vascular abnormality and improves T-cell recruitment after PD-1 blockade in
glioma.
Hua Huang, Maria Georganaki, Lei Liu Conze, Bàrbara Laviña, Luuk van Hooren, Kalyani Vemuri, Tiarne van de Walle, Mohanraj Ramachandran, Lei Zhang, Fredrik Pontén, Michael Bergqvist, Anja Smits, Christer Betsholtz, Elisabetta Dejana, Peetra U Magnusson, Liqun He, Roberta Lugano, Anna Dimberg
Neuro-oncology - 2022 -
Central nervous system hemangioblastomas in von Hippel-Lindau disease: Total growth rate and risk of developing new lesions not associated with circulating VEGF
levels.
Jimmy Sundblom, Tor Persson Skare, Olivia Holm, Staffan Welin, Madelene Braun, Pelle Nilsson, Per Enblad, Elisabet Ohlin Sjöström, Anja Smits
PloS one - 2022 -
WHO Grade Loses Its Prognostic Value in Molecularly Defined Diffuse Lower-Grade
Gliomas.
Louise Carstam, Alba Corell, Anja Smits, Anna Dénes, Hanna Barchéus, Klara Modin, Helene Sjögren, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Helena Carén, Asgeir Store Jakola
Frontiers in oncology - 2022 -
Psychotropic and anti-epileptic drug use, before and after surgery, among patients with low-grade glioma: a nationwide matched cohort
study.
Isabelle Rydén, Erik Thurin, Louise Carstam, Anja Smits, Sasha Gulati, Roger Henriksson, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
BMC cancer - 2021 -
Classification of Adverse Events Following Surgery in Patients With Diffuse Lower-Grade
Gliomas
Tomás Gómez Vecchio, Alba Corell, Dongni Johansson Buvarp, Isabelle Rydén, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Frontiers in Oncology - 2021 -
Agonistic CD40 therapy induces tertiary lymphoid structures but impairs responses to checkpoint blockade in
glioma.
Luuk van Hooren, Alessandra Vaccaro, Mohanraj Ramachandran, Konstantinos Vazaios, Sylwia Libard, Tiarne van de Walle, Maria Georganaki, Hua Huang, Ilkka Pietilä, Joey Lau, Maria H Ulvmar, Mikael C I Karlsson, Maria Zetterling, Sara M Mangsbo, Asgeir Store Jakola, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Anja Smits, Magnus Essand, Anna Dimberg
Nature communications - 2021 -
Deletions on Chromosome Y and Downregulation of the SRY Gene in Tumor Tissue Are Associated with Worse Survival of Glioblastoma
Patients.
Małgorzata Łysiak, Anja Smits, Kenney Roy Roodakker, Elisabeth Sandberg, Anna Dimberg, Munila Mudaisi, Charlotte Bratthäll, Michael Strandeus, Peter Milos, Martin Hallbeck, Peter Söderkvist, Annika Malmström
Cancers - 2021 -
DNA methylation profiling for molecular classification of adult diffuse lower-grade
gliomas.
Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Alba Corell, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola, Helena Carén
Clinical epigenetics - 2021 -
Impact of meningioma surgery on use of antiepileptic, antidepressant, and sedative drugs: A Swedish nationwide matched cohort
study.
Erik Thurin, Isabelle Rydén, Thomas Skoglund, Anja Smits, Sasha Gulati, Göran Hesselager, Jiri Bartek, Roger Henriksson, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
Cancer medicine - 2021 -
A randomized phase II trial of efficacy and safety of the immunotherapy ALECSAT as an adjunct to radiotherapy and temozolomide for newly diagnosed
glioblastoma.
Katja Werlenius, Giuseppe Stragliotto, Michael Strandeus, Malin Blomstrand, Helena Carén, Asgeir Store Jakola, Bertil Rydenhag, Dorte Dyregaard, Karine N Dzhandzhugazyan, Alexei F Kirkin, Martin K Raida, Anja Smits, Sara Kinhult
Neuro-oncology advances - 2021 -
Preoperative Patient-Reported Outcomes in Suspected Low-Grade Glioma: Markers of Disease Severity and Correlations with Molecular
Subtypes.
Dongni Johansson Buvarp, Isabelle Rydén, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Tomás Gomez Vecchio, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Journal of clinical medicine - 2021 -
Sex Disparities in MGMT Promoter Methylation and Survival in Glioblastoma: Further Evidence from Clinical
Cohorts.
Anja Smits, Malgorzata Lysiak, Andreas Magnusson, Johan Rosell, Peter Söderkvist, Annika Malmström
Journal of clinical medicine - 2021 -
Depression and ability to work after vestibular schwannoma surgery: a nationwide registry-based matched cohort study on antidepressants, sedatives, and sick
leave.
Erik Thurin, Petter Förander, Jiri Bartek, Sasha Gulati, Isabelle Rydén, Anja Smits, Göran Hesselager, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
Acta neurochirurgica - 2021 -
Health-related quality of life and emotional well-being connected to glioblastoma; a longitudinal follow-up of patients and
relatives
Pernilla Ståhl, Ingela Henoch, Anja Smits, Bertil Rydenhag, Anneli Ozanne
Neuro-Oncology - 2021 -
Health-related Quality of Life and Emotional Well-being Connected to Glioblastoma; A Longitudinal Follow-up Study Involving the Patients’
Relatives
Pernilla Ståhl, Ingela Henoch, Anja Smits, Bertil Rydenhag, Anneli Ozanne
Abstracts from the 17th World Congress of the EAPC 2021. Palliative Medicine. 2021;35(1_suppl):1-243. doi:10.1177/02692163211035909 - 2021 -
Variations in the management of diffuse low-grade gliomas-A Scandinavian multicenter
study.
Bodil Karoline Ravn Munkvold, Ole Solheim, Jiri Bartek, Alba Corell, Eddie de Dios, Sasha Gulati, Eirik Helseth, Klas Holmgren, Margret Jensdottir, Mina Lundborg, Eduardo Erasmo Mendoza Mireles, Ruby Mahesparan, Øystein Vesterli Tveiten, Peter Milos, Henrietta Nittby Redebrandt, Lars Kjelsberg Pedersen, Jon Ramm-Pettersen, Rickard L Sjöberg, Björn Sjögren, Kristin Sjåvik, Anja Smits, Gregor Tomasevic, Tomás Gomez Vecchio, Einar O Vik-Mo, Maria Zetterling, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
Neuro-oncology practice - 2021 -
Return to work following diagnosis of low-grade glioma: A nationwide matched cohort
study.
Isabelle Rydén, Louise Carstam, Sasha Gulati, Anja Smits, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Per Hellström, Roger Henriksson, Jiri Bartek, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
Neurology - 2020 -
Health-related quality of life and emotional well-being in patients with glioblastoma and their
relatives.
Pernilla Ståhl, Boglarka Fekete, Ingela Henoch, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola, Bertil Rydenhag, Anneli Ozanne
Journal of neuro-oncology - 2020 -
The clinical significance of the T2-FLAIR mismatch sign in grade II and III gliomas: a population-based
study.
Alba Corell, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Nickoleta Hoefling, Louise Carstam, Anja Smits, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Isabella Björkman-Burtscher, Helena Carén, Asgeir Store Jakola
BMC cancer - 2020 -
Return to work following meningioma surgery: a Swedish nationwide registry-based matched cohort
study.
Erik Thurin, Alba Corell, Sasha Gulati, Anja Smits, Roger Henriksson, J Bartek, Øyvind Salvesen, Asgeir Store Jakola
Neuro-oncology practice - 2020 -
Patterns of care and clinical outcome in assumed glioblastoma without tissue diagnosis: A population-based study of 131 consecutive
patients.
Katja Werlenius, Boglarka Fekete, Malin Blomstrand, Helena Carén, Asgeir Store Jakola, Bertil Rydenhag, Anja Smits
PloS one - 2020 -
Socioeconomic factors affect treatment delivery for patients with low grade glioma: a Swedish population-based
study.
Louise Carstam, Isabelle Rydén, Sasha Gulati, Bertil Rydenhag, Roger Henriksson, Øyvind Salvesen, Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Journal of neuro-oncology - 2020 -
Platelet-derived growth factor receptor α/glial fibrillary acidic protein expressing peritumoral astrocytes associate with shorter median overall survival in glioblastoma
patients.
Lina Leiss, Alessandro Mega, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Monica Nistér, Anja Smits, Sara Corvigno, Mohummad Aminur Rahman, Per Øyvind Enger, Hrvoje Miletic, Arne Östman
Glia - 2020 -
Neurosurgical patterns of care for diffuse low-grade gliomas in Sweden between 2005 and
2015
Louise Carstam, Anja Smits, Peter Milos, Alba Corell, Roger Henriksson, Jiri Bartek jr, Asgeir Store Jakola
Neuro-Oncology Practice - 2019 -
A novel radiological classification system for cerebral gliomas: The
Brain-Grid.
Francesco Latini, Markus Fahlström, Shala G Berntsson, Elna-Marie Larsson, Anja Smits, Mats Ryttlefors
PloS one - 2019 -
Clinical Presentation, Natural History, and Prognosis of Diffuse Low-Grade
Gliomas.
Anja Smits, Asgeir Store Jakola
Neurosurgery clinics of North America - 2019 -
Region-by-region analysis of PET, MRI, and histology in en bloc-resected oligodendrogliomas reveals intra-tumoral
heterogeneity.
Kenney Roy Roodakker, Ali Alhuseinalkhudhur, Mohammed Al-Jaff, Maria Georganaki, Maria Zetterling, Shala G Berntsson, Torsten Danfors, Robin Strand, Per-Henrik Edqvist, Anna Dimberg, Elna-Marie Larsson, Anja Smits
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging - 2019 -
Predictors of Epileptic Seizures and Ability to Work in Supratentorial Cavernous Angioma Located Within Eloquent Brain
Areas.
Marc Zanello, John R Goodden, Henry Colle, Michel Wager, Philip C De Witt Hamer, Anja Smits, Lorenzo Bello, Matthew Tate, Giannantonio Spena, Damien Bresson, Laurent Capelle, Santiago Gil Robles, Silvio Sarubbo, Bertil Rydenhag, Juan Martino, Bernhard Meyer, Denys Fontaine, Nicolas Reyns, Christian Schichor, Philippe Metellus, David Colle, Erik Robert, Bonny Noens, Peter Muller, Marco Rossi, Marco Conti Nibali, Costanza Papagno, Lara Galbarritu, Edurne Ruiz de Gopegui, Franco Chioffi, Carlos Bucheli, Sandro M Krieg, Maria Wostrack, Natan Yusupov, Victoria Visser, Johannes C Baaijen, Alexandre Roux, Edouard Dezamis, Emmanuel Mandonnet, Robert Corns, Hugues Duffau, Johan Pallud
Neurosurgery - 2019 -
The Gothenburg population-based glioblastoma research database: Methodological aspects and potential
impact
Boglarka Fekete, Katja Werlenius, Helena Carén, Anneli Ozanne, Lars Rosengren, Henrik Zetterberg, Magnus Tisell, Anja Smits, Fredrik Pontén, Cecilia Lindskog, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Asgeir Store Jakola, Bertil Rydenhag
Neurology and Neurosurgery - 2019 -
Surgical resection of cavernous angioma located within eloquent brain areas: International survey of the practical management among 19 specialized
centers.
Marc Zanello, Bernhard Meyer, Megan Still, John R Goodden, Henry Colle, Christian Schichor, Lorenzo Bello, Michel Wager, Anja Smits, Bertil Rydenhag, Matthew Tate, Philippe Metellus, Philip De Witt Hamer, Giannantonio Spena, Laurent Capelle, Emmanuel Mandonnet, Santiago Gil Robles, Silvio Sarubbo, Juan Martino González, Denys Fontaine, Nicolas Reyns, Sandro M Krieg, Gilles Huberfeld, Maria Wostrack, David Colle, Erik Robert, Bonny Noens, Peter Muller, Natan Yusupov, Marco Rossi, Marco Conti Nibali, Costanza Papagno, Victoria Visser, Hans Baaijen, Lara Galbarritu, Franco Chioffi, Carlos Bucheli, Alexandre Roux, Edouard Dezamis, Hugues Duffau, Johan Pallud
Seizure - 2019 -
CD93 promotes β1 integrin activation and fibronectin fibrillogenesis during tumor
angiogenesis
Roberta Lugano, Kalyani Vemuri, Di Yu, Michael Bergqvist, Anja Smits, Magnus Essand, Staffan Johansson, Elisabetta Dejana, Anna Dimberg
The Journal of clinical investigation - 2018 -
Age and surgical outcome of low-grade glioma in
Sweden.
Alba Corell, Louise Carstam, Anja Smits, R Henriksson, Asgeir Store Jakola
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 2018 -
Imaging practice in low-grade gliomas among European specialized centers and proposal for a minimum core of
imaging.
Christian F Freyschlag, Sandro M Krieg, Johannes Kerschbaumer, Daniel Pinggera, Marie-Therese Forster, Dominik Cordier, Marco Rossi, Gabriele Miceli, Alexandre Roux, Andrés Reyes, Silvio Sarubbo, Anja Smits, Joanna Sierpowska, Pierre A Robe, Geert-Jan Rutten, Thomas Santarius, Tomasz Matys, Marc Zanello, Fabien Almairac, Lydiane Mondot, Asgeir Store Jakola, Maria Zetterling, Adrià Rofes, Gord von Campe, Remy Guillevin, Daniele Bagatto, Vincent Lubrano, Marion Rapp, John Goodden, Philip C De Witt Hamer, Johan Pallud, Lorenzo Bello, Claudius Thomé, Hugues Duffau, Emmanuel Mandonnet
Journal of neuro-oncology - 2018 -
Glioma-related seizures in relation to histopathological subtypes: a report from the glioma international case-control
study.
Shala G Berntsson, Ryan T Merrell, E Susan Amirian, Georgina N Armstrong, Daniel Lachance, Anja Smits, Renke Zhou, Daniel I Jacobs, Margaret R Wrensch, Sara H Olson, Dora Il'yasova, Elizabeth B Claus, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Joellen Schildkraut, Siegal Sadetzki, Christoffer Johansen, Richard S Houlston, Robert B Jenkins, Jonine L Bernstein, Rose Lai, Sanjay Shete, Christopher I Amos, Melissa L Bondy, Beatrice S Melin
Journal of neurology - 2018 -
Determinants for Effective ALECSAT Immunotherapy Treatment on Autologous Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Stem
Cells.
Anna Wenger, Katja Werlenius, Alexander Hallner, Fredrik Bergh Thorén, Dan Farahmand, Magnus Tisell, Anja Smits, Bertil Rydenhag, Asgeir Store Jakola, Helena Carén
Neoplasia - 2018 -
IDH-mutation Status is Associated with Distinct Vascular Gene Expression Signatures in Lower Grade
Gliomas.
Lei Zhang, Liqun He, Roberta Lugano, Kenney Roodakker, Michael Bergquist, Anja Smits, Anna Dimberg
Neuro-oncology - 2018 -
Proton therapy for low-grade gliomas in adults: A systematic
review.
Erik Thurin, Petra W Nyström, Anja Smits, Katja Werlenius, Anna Bäck, Ann Liljegren, EL Daxberg, Asgeir Store Jakola
Clinical neurology and neurosurgery - 2018
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