Article
Resistance-promoting effects of ependymoma treatment revealed through genomic analysis of multiple recurrences in a single patient.
Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies - 1 Apr 2018
Miller Christopher A, Dahiya Sonika, Li Tiandao, Fulton Robert S, Smyth Matthew D, Dunn Gavin P, Rubin Joshua B, Mardis Elaine R
Abstract excerpt
As in other brain tumors, multiple recurrences after complete resection and irradiation of supratentorial ependymoma are common and frequently result in patient death. This standard-of-care treatment was established in the pregenomic era without the ability to evaluate the effect that mutagenic therapies may exert on tumor evolution and in promoting resistance, recurrence, and death. We seized a rare opportunity...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Antigens, Neoplasm
- Biopsy
- Disease Progression
- Ependymoma
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genomics
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
