Sentences with phrase «pediatric tumors»

Its precision and safety makes it desirable for treatment of pediatric tumors and particularly tumors of the brain, spine, eye, lung, head and neck, and bone.

The mutation rates in pediatric tumors ranged from 0.02 mutations per megabase in hepatoblastoma to 0.49 in Burkitt's lymphoma.

«Image guided radiation therapy is commonly used to ensure accuracy in treating pediatric tumors.»

Kandel and colleagues at the Pediatric Tumor Biology Laboratory were the first to describe how experimental pediatric tumor growth could be suppressed by blocking a molecule called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from performing its natural job.

In other words, different pediatric tumor types seem to arise from different mutated genes and pathways.

Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is a commonly used modality to ensure treatment accuracy in the management of pediatric tumors; however, consensus recommendations are needed in order to guide clinical decisions on the use of IGRT in treating pediatric patients, according to a study published in the September - October 2014 issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), the official clinical practice journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Yet overall the mutation rate in pediatric tumors was 14 times lower than that of adult tumors profiled by TCGA.

Institut Curie combines a research center and hospital focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and specializing in breast and gynecologic cancers, and pediatric tumors.

Today, we are pioneering the use of interventional radiology for the surgical removal of pediatric tumors, and we are one of only a few centers nationally to offer I - 131 MIBG therapy for children with relapsed neuroblastoma.

After adjusting for relative incidence, 52 % of pediatric tumors had a potential druggable event.

This early onset suggested to Al that the number of predisposing events in these pediatric tumors must be quite small.