Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

K Aldape, KM Brindle, L Chesler, R Chopra… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, brain tumours remain among the deadliest of all forms of
cancer. The ability of these tumours to resist almost all conventional and novel treatments …

Beneficial and detrimental aspects of miRNAs as chief players in breast cancer: a comprehensive review

A Ismail, HA El-Mahdy, AI Abulsoud… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women and poses a serious threat to their
health. Despite familiarity with factors affecting its etiology, initiation, progression, treatment …

The current consensus on the clinical management of intracranial ependymoma and its distinct molecular variants

KW Pajtler, SC Mack, V Ramaswamy, CA Smith… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Multiple independent genomic profiling efforts have recently identified clinically and
molecularly distinct subgroups of ependymoma arising from all three anatomic …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cellular hierarchies and impaired developmental trajectories in pediatric ependymoma

J Gojo, B Englinger, L Jiang, JM Hübner, MKL Shaw… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Ependymoma is a heterogeneous entity of central nervous system tumors with well-
established molecular groups. Here, we apply single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze …

Medulloblastoma genotype dictates blood brain barrier phenotype

TN Phoenix, DM Patmore, S Boop, N Boulos, MO Jacus… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
The childhood brain tumor, medulloblastoma, includes four subtypes with very different
prognoses. Here, we show that paracrine signals driven by mutant β-catenin in WNT …

Therapeutic targeting of ependymoma as informed by oncogenic enhancer profiling

SC Mack, KW Pajtler, L Chavez, K Okonechnikov… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Genomic sequencing has driven precision-based oncology therapy; however, the genetic
drivers of many malignancies remain unknown or non-targetable, so alternative approaches …

The biology of ependymomas and emerging novel therapies

AH Saleh, N Samuel, K Juraschka, MH Saleh… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Ependymomas are rare central nervous system tumours that can arise in the brain's
supratentorial region or posterior fossa, or in the spinal cord. In 1924, Percival Bailey …

TBX2 is a neuroblastoma core regulatory circuitry component enhancing MYCN/FOXM1 reactivation of DREAM targets

B Decaesteker, G Denecker, C Van Neste… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Chromosome 17q gains are almost invariably present in high-risk neuroblastoma cases.
Here, we perform an integrative epigenomics search for dosage-sensitive transcription …

ZFTA Translocations Constitute Ependymoma Chromatin Remodeling and Transcription Factors

R Kupp, L Ruff, S Terranova, E Nathan, S Ballereau… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Abstract ZFTA (C11orf95)—a gene of unknown function—partners with a variety of
transcriptional coactivators in translocations that drive supratentorial ependymoma, a …

Childhood malignant brain tumors: balancing the bench and bedside

C Thorbinson, JP Kilday - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Brain tumors remain the most common childhood solid tumors, accounting
for approximately 25% of all pediatric cancers. They also represent the most common cause …