Article
Neuroblastoma: the impact of biology and cooperation leading to personalized treatments.
Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences - 1 Jan 2000
Owens Cormac, Irwin Meredith
Abstract excerpt
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in children. It is a heterogeneous disease, consisting of neural crest-derived tumors with remarkably different clinical behaviors. It can present in a wide variety of ways, including lesions which have the potential to spontaneously regress, or as an extremely aggressive form of metastatic cancer which is resistant to all forms of modern therapy. They...
Topics
- Biomarkers
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Infant
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- N-Myc Proto-Oncogene Protein
- Neoplasm Staging
- Neuroblastoma
- Nuclear Proteins
- Oncogene Proteins
- Receptor, trkA
- Risk Factors
