Rhabdomyosarcomas comprise the single largest category of soft tissue sarcomas in
children and adolescents in the United States, occurring in 4.5 million people aged below 20 …

Context.—Rhabdomyosarcomas comprise a relatively common diagnostic entity among
childhood cancers and a relatively rare one among adult tumors. They may possess a …

Purpose To determine whether the clinical and molecular biologic characteristics of the
alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) and embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) subtypes …

Background: Survivors of childhood cancer may experience important disease-and
treatment-related late effects, including functional limitations. Objective: This study evaluated …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common, lethal genetic disorder of
children. A number of animal models of muscular dystrophy exist, but the most effective …

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in children occurs as two major histological subtypes,
embryonal (ERMS) and alveolar (ARMS). ERMS is associated with an 11p15. 5 loss of …

BACKGROUND. Survival trends provide a measure of improvement in detection and
treatment over time. In the current study, updated childhood and adolescent cancer survival …

Pediatric undifferentiated soft tissue sarcomas are a group of diagnostically challenging
tumors. Recent studies have identified a subgroup of undifferentiated soft tissue sarcomas …

Although the incidence of cancer in the United States is high, improvements in early
diagnosis and treatment have significantly increased survival rates in recent years. Many …

More than 12,000 newly diagnosed cases of cancer occur each year in the United States
among children ages 20 years or younger, and the current 5-year survival rate is near 80 …