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- noun Plural form of
neuroblastoma .
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Children's Hospital doctors have discovered many of the reasons why neuroblastomas occur.
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Stephan A. Grupp, MD, PhD and colleagues are working to develop new therapies based on the fact that neuroblastomas develop mechanisms to avoid the immune system.
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Childhood tumors that arise in other organs of the body rarely spread to the nervous system, with the exception of neuroblastomas.
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Telomerase activity has previously been linked to progression and poor patient survival in childhood cancers of the central and peripheral nervous system, such as gliomas and neuroblastomas.
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In the study, NT-3 was found to be expressed at increased levels in aggressive human neuroblastomas and to block the ability of TrkC to induce tumour cell death by a process known as apoptosis.
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There are already treatments in development for neuroblastomas that target the MYCN gene and these same drugs could be used for Wilms 'tumours that return.
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In the study, NT-3 was found to be expressed at increased levels in aggressive human neuroblastomas and to block the ability of TrkC to induce tumor cell death by a process known as apoptosis.
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There are already treatments in development for neuroblastomas that target the MYCN gene and these same drugs could be used for Wilms 'tumours that return.
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By using the latest genetic techniques, the researchers have succeeded in analysing the DNA of tumour cells and identifying chromosomal defects, enabling the identification of sub-groups of the most aggressive neuroblastomas.
innovations-report 2010
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By using the latest genetic techniques, the researchers have succeeded in analysing the DNA of tumour cells and identifying chromosomal defects, enabling the identification of sub-groups of the most aggressive neuroblastomas.
innovations-report 2010
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