Article
The Molecular, Neurological, and Clinical Features of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
2022-11-08
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is recognized as a pediatric brainstem cancer with a 0% survival rate. On a molecular basis, DIPG commonly results from mutations in histone H3, specifically a mutation in the H3K27M gene, that promotes tumorigenesis and results in presentation of this fatal brainstem tumor. DIPG is challenging to treat, as surgical intervention is inefficacious due to the location where the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f0514c8f-69fc-5db0-a84d-eb506eea8211
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202211.0140.v1
