Ewing Tumor: Tumor Biology and Clinical Applications

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The Ewing tumor family includes classical Ewing's sarcoma of bone and soft tissues, peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pPNET), Askin tumor, and other less frequent variants. This group of tumors is defined by the consistent presence of chromosomal translocations resulting in gene fusions between EWS gene and a member of the ETS family of transcription factors, mainly FLI1 and ERG. Analogous fusions are...

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