Medulloblastoma is a common type of primary brain cancer in children. It originates in the part of the brain that is towards the back and the bottom,...

wrestling-inspired nicknames "Stone Crusher" and "The Crusher". He developed medulloblastoma in September 2009, when he was three years old. After his diagnosis...

precursor cells, often called blasts. Examples are nephroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and retinoblastoma. The suffix -blastoma is used to imply a tumor...

as glioblastomas. In children, the most common type is a malignant medulloblastoma. Diagnosis is usually by medical examination along with computed tomography...

rule are those that exhibit haploinsufficiency, including PTCH in medulloblastoma and NF1 in neurofibroma. Another example is p27, a cell-cycle inhibitor...

(October 17, 2005 – April 25, 2014) who had died two months earlier from medulloblastoma, a rare tumor that affects the brain and spinal cord. Beginning in...

are available and they are instead graded. Embryonal CNS tumors like medulloblastoma are staged following a classification developed by Chang et al. Breast...

DAOY is a widely used human medulloblastoma cell line. It has epithelial morphology and was obtained from a 4-year-old Caucasian boy in 1985. It can be...

g. neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, nephroblastoma, hepatoblastoma, medulloblastoma, etc.) than in older adults. Cancers are usually named using -carcinoma...

neuroepithelial tumour Lhermitte–Duclos disease CNS embryonal tumors Medulloblastoma Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor Embryonal tumour with multilayered...

activate Sonic hedgehog signaling predispose to cancer of the cerebellum (medulloblastoma) in humans with Gorlin Syndrome and in genetically engineered mouse...

ligand. Established medulloblastoma (a malignant brain tumor common in childhood) specimens express CD46, and that medulloblastoma specimens removed from...

childhood medulloblastoma. The new protocol that he developed led to a marked increase in disease-free survival rates for patients with medulloblastoma, up...

a marked increase in disease-free survival rates for patients with medulloblastoma - again, up to around 85%. This application of cisplatin was developed...

be translocated to the nucleus. SUFU mutations are associated with medulloblastoma, a diagnostic criteria for NBCCS. Up to 70% of people with NBCCS inherit...

Aneurysmal bone cyst Ewing's sarcoma Metastases from brain stem tumors (medulloblastoma, ependymoma, high-grade astrocytoma) Urinary incontinence Fecal incontinence...

types in addition to adenocarcinoma. Metastases of breast cancer, medulloblastoma and prostate cancer all had similar expression patterns of these...

brain-specific snRNA that targets the serotonin-2C receptor mRNA. Medulloblastoma – The U1 snRNA is mutated in a subset of these brain tumors, and leads...

small-cell lung cancer, advanced stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, medulloblastoma and chondrosarcoma as of June 2011[update]. The drug was developed...

prevents the growth of medulloblastoma lesions in a Shh-type mouse model of medulloblastoma. Thus, CXCL3 is a target for medulloblastoma therapy. BTG2 has...

lab currently studies the regulation of BTIC signaling pathways in medulloblastomas (MB), glioblastomas (GBM), and brain metastases (BM). Singh's lab found...

including colorectal carcinoma, lung cancer, and medulloblastoma. In completely resected medulloblastoma, 5-year survival rate is 85% if adjuvant chemotherapy...

unwanted effects. Two prominent examples are pediatric neoplasms (such as medulloblastoma) and prostate cancer. Irreversible long-term side effects of conventional...

follows: Aniridia Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Brain tumors (medulloblastoma, astrocytoma, or other tumors in the posterior fossa.) Canavan disease...

which can cause Intracranial hypertension Malignant hypertension Medulloblastoma Obesity Orbital Glaucoma: central retinal vein occlusion, cavernous...

activate Sonic hedgehog signaling predispose to cancer of the cerebellum (medulloblastoma) in humans with Gorlin syndrome and in genetically engineered mouse...

cancer. The condition can also arise from primary brain tumor like medulloblastoma. Leptomeningeal disease is becoming more evident because cancer patients...

multiforme), Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour, Oligodendroglioma, Medulloblastoma, Primitive neuroectodermal tumor Neuroepitheliomatous tumors Ganglioneuroma...

model was used to confirm p53 as one of the genes involved in human medulloblastomas, but since only about 10% of the human tumors showed mutations in that...

malignant ependymoma and the ependymoblastoma, are treated similarly to medulloblastoma but the prognosis is much less favorable. Malignant ependymomas may...