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cIMPACT-NOW update 1: Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) and Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)

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This paper has been reviewed by the Steering Committee and Clinical Advisory Panel of cIMPACT-NOW [1, 2] and by the International Society of Neuropathology Executive.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    David N. Louis

  2. Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pieter Wesseling

  3. Department of Pathology, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Pieter Wesseling

  4. University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Pieter Wesseling

  5. Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Münster, Pottkamp 2, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Werner Paulus

  6. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Caterina Giannini

  7. Departments of Neurology, Radiation Oncology and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Tracy T. Batchelor

  8. Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N4Z6, Canada

    J. Gregory Cairncross

  9. Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    David Capper

  10. Department of Neuropathology, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

    David Capper

  11. Aix-Marseille Univ, APHM, Inserm, CRO2 UMR_S 911, Hôpital de la Timone, Service d’Anatomie Pathologique et de Neuropathologie, Marseille, France

    Dominique Figarella-Branger

  12. Departments of Pathology and Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA

    M. Beatriz Lopes

  13. Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Core Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Wolfgang Wick

  14. The Brain Tumor Center at Erasmus MC Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Martin van den Bent

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Louis, D.N., Wesseling, P., Paulus, W. et al. cIMPACT-NOW update 1: Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) and Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC). Acta Neuropathol 135, 481–484 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-018-1808-0

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