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- noun medicine A
tumour of thecentral nervous system
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The team studied a tumor called ependymoma that affects the brains of children and adults, but can also translate into other forms of cancer.
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The team studied a tumor called ependymoma that affects the brains of children and adults, but can also translate into other forms of cancer.
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The approach was developed by studying a tumor called ependymoma that affects the brains and spines of children and adults, but may also translate to other forms of cancer.
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The most common childhood brain tumors are astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, ependymoma and brain stem glioma.
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Canada and Europe to conduct the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ependymoma genome.
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Additional testing found that the mouse ependymoma model matched just one subtype of human ependymomas but no other form of common human brain tumors.
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Jessica Elam, 15, is part of a clinical trial studying a new treatment for ependymoma, a type of tumor that affects the spine and central nervous system.
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One of the SATC crew member's daughter, Minty, was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer (anaplastic ependymoma) in her first months of life.
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In this study, investigators linked EPHB2 to just one ependymoma subtype.
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The research also led to discovery of the first gene, called EPHB2, proven to cause ependymoma and has created the first accurate laboratory model of this disease.
st5439r commented on the word ependymoma
Ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system.
January 23, 2009