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In 1977, Dehner was the first to identify and characterize a type of tumor known as pleuropulmonary blastoma.
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They found that children with a rare, aggressive form of lung cancer called pleuropulmonary blastoma, or PPB, are born with a mutation in DICER1, itself a master controller gene that helps regulate other genes.
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They found that children with a rare, aggressive form of lung cancer called pleuropulmonary blastoma, or PPB, are born with a mutation in DICER1, itself a master controller gene that helps regulate other genes.
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Bridget was eventually diagnosed with pleuropulmonary blastoma, a form of cancer so rare it affects only 10 to 20 children in all of North America each year.
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I get into your lungs with my pleuropulmonary type.
Francisella tularensis Emma Lurie 2007
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I get into your lungs with my pleuropulmonary type.
Archive 2007-05-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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In summer 2009, a former student and colleague of Dehner's, Ashley Hill, MD, now chief of pathology at the Children's National Medical Center, brought his work full circle by identifying the first gene linked to pleuropulmonary blastoma.
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The study shows that some children with the rare cancer pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) are born with a deleterious mutation in DICER1, a master controller gene that helps regulate the expression of other genes.
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Germline DICER1 mutations in familial pleuropulmonary blastoma.
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