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    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,...
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    precursor cells, often called blasts. Examples are nephroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and retinoblastoma. The suffix -blastoma is used to imply a tumor...
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  • wrestling-inspired nicknames "Stone Crusher" and "The Crusher". He developed medulloblastoma in September 2009, when he was three years old. After his diagnosis...
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    as glioblastomas. In children, the most common type is a malignant medulloblastoma. Diagnosis is usually by medical examination along with computed tomography...
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    rule are those that exhibit haploinsufficiency, including PTCH in medulloblastoma and NF1 in neurofibroma. Another example is p27, a cell-cycle inhibitor...
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    (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...
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  • are available and they are instead graded. Embryonal CNS tumors like medulloblastoma are staged following a classification developed by Chang et al. Breast...
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  • 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...
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    ligand. Established medulloblastoma (a malignant brain tumor common in childhood) specimens express CD46, and that medulloblastoma specimens removed from...
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  • g. neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, nephroblastoma, hepatoblastoma, medulloblastoma, etc.) than in older adults. Cancers are usually named using -carcinoma...
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  • neuroepithelial tumour Lhermitte–Duclos disease CNS embryonal tumors Medulloblastoma Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor Embryonal tumour with multilayered...
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    activate Sonic hedgehog signaling predispose to cancer of the cerebellum (medulloblastoma) in humans with Gorlin Syndrome and in genetically engineered mouse...
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    childhood medulloblastoma. The new protocol that he developed led to a marked increase in disease-free survival rates for patients with medulloblastoma, up...
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    be translocated to the nucleus. SUFU mutations are associated with medulloblastoma, a diagnostic criteria for NBCCS. Up to 70% of people with NBCCS inherit...
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  • a marked increase in disease-free survival rates for patients with medulloblastoma - again, up to around 85%. This application of cisplatin was developed...
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    small-cell lung cancer, advanced stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, medulloblastoma and chondrosarcoma as of June 2011[update]. The drug was developed...
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  • Aneurysmal bone cyst Ewing's sarcoma Metastases from brain stem tumors (medulloblastoma, ependymoma, high-grade astrocytoma) Urinary incontinence Fecal incontinence...
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    types in addition to adenocarcinoma. Metastases of breast cancer, medulloblastoma and prostate cancer all had similar expression patterns of these...
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  • 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...
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    prevents the growth of medulloblastoma lesions in a Shh-type mouse model of medulloblastoma. Thus, CXCL3 is a target for medulloblastoma therapy. BTG2 has...
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    daughter, Sarah. His older son, Jacob, died in 2009 at age ten from a medulloblastoma, a rare form of pediatric brain cancer. "Michael Froman '91 joins White...
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  • lab currently studies the regulation of BTIC signaling pathways in medulloblastomas (MB), glioblastomas (GBM), and brain metastases (BM). Singh's lab found...
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  • including colorectal carcinoma, lung cancer, and medulloblastoma. In completely resected medulloblastoma, 5-year survival rate is 85% if adjuvant chemotherapy...
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    unwanted effects. Two prominent examples are pediatric neoplasms (such as medulloblastoma) and prostate cancer. Irreversible long-term side effects of conventional...
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    follows: Aniridia Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Brain tumors (medulloblastoma, astrocytoma, or other tumors in the posterior fossa.) Canavan disease...
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    which can cause Intracranial hypertension Malignant hypertension Medulloblastoma Obesity Orbital Glaucoma: central retinal vein occlusion, cavernous...
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    activate Sonic hedgehog signaling predispose to cancer of the cerebellum (medulloblastoma) in humans with Gorlin syndrome and in genetically engineered mouse...
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    prevents the growth of medulloblastoma lesions in a Shh-type mouse model of medulloblastoma. Thus, CXCL3 is a target for medulloblastoma therapy. Cxcl3 is...
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    cancer. The condition can also arise from primary brain tumor like medulloblastoma. Leptomeningeal disease is becoming more evident because cancer patients...
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    multiforme), Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour, Oligodendroglioma, Medulloblastoma, Primitive neuroectodermal tumor Neuroepitheliomatous tumors Ganglioneuroma...
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