Science news articles about 'neuroblastoma tumors'

... decreased blood vessel formation around neuroblastoma tumors in mice," says Zage. "When combined with CRA, ... -risk neuroblastoma, long-term survival is less than 40 percent because the tumors are often ...

... little was known about genetic events that predispose a child to developing a neuroblastoma tumor. In roughly half of neuroblastoma cases, the cancer is not discovered until it has spread widely in a ...

... that demonstrate how shutting down a single biochemical signaling connection dramatically suppresses neuroblastoma tumor formation and slows the cancer's spread. Their investigation centered on an ...

... and his colleagues found five never-before-identified mutations in ALK in 8 percent of the neuroblastoma tumor samples studied. The mutations were all in a portion of the gene responsible for the ...

... help people with stubborn cancers like neuroblastoma, which often recur and metastasize, said Timothy Cripe ... presence of cancer stem cells in primary neuroblastoma tumor cells from patients. Dr. Cripe ...

Researchers have discovered a new drug combination that significantly hinders tumor growth in neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer.

RICHMOND, Va., June 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have identified a gene that might play a key role in regulating tumor growth in neuroblastomas, a form of cancer found in children.

... genetic makeup of 846 patients with neuroblastoma, whose samples were derived from the Children's Oncology Group Neuroblastoma Tumor Bank, and 803 healthy patients in a control group. On the basis ...

... compared with patients whose tumors expressed CHD5. Neuroblastoma tumors often lack one copy of ... -free and overall survival than those patients whose tumor showed low CHD5 expression. Other genes in ...

... schedules June 13 Endeavour launch … Liver injury possible from thyroid drug … Consequences of coextinctions are studied … Gene regulating neuroblastoma tumors found ... Health/Science news from UPI.

... , especially those with early-stage disease." The study also found that FDG PET may also be useful in imaging neuroblastoma tumors that do not readily absorb MIBG. In these cases, imaging with MIBG ...