Retinoblastoma

H Dimaras, TW Corson, D Cobrinik, A White… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the infant retina that is diagnosed in approximately 8,000
children each year worldwide. It forms when both retinoblastoma gene (RB1) alleles are …

The expanding world of N-MYC–driven tumors

DS Rickman, JH Schulte, M Eilers - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Enhanced and deregulated expression of N-MYC, a member of the MYC family of
transcription factors, drives the development of multiple tumors, including tumors of the …

Retinoblastoma from human stem cell-derived retinal organoids

JL Norrie, A Nityanandam, K Lai, X Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a childhood cancer of the develo** retina that initiates with biallelic
inactivation of the RB1 gene. Children with germline mutations in RB1 have a high …

A high-risk retinoblastoma subtype with stemness features, dedifferentiated cone states and neuronal/ganglion cell gene expression

J Liu, D Ottaviani, M Sefta, C Desbrousses… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is the most frequent intraocular malignancy in children, originating from a
maturing cone precursor in the develo** retina. Little is known on the molecular basis …

Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer

PC Boutros, M Fraser, NJ Harding, R De Borja… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Herein we provide a detailed molecular analysis of the spatial heterogeneity of clinically
localized, multifocal prostate cancer to delineate new oncogenes or tumor suppressors. We …

The management of retinoblastoma

ID Fabian, Z Onadim, E Karaa, C Duncan… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy of childhood, but
an uncommon paediatric cancer, with a constant incidence worldwide of 1: 15,000–1 …

Molecular characteristics and therapeutic vulnerabilities across paediatric solid tumours

DTW Jones, A Banito, TGP Grünewald, M Haber… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The spectrum of tumours arising in childhood is fundamentally different from that seen in
adults, and they are known to be divergent from adult malignancies in terms of cellular …

Retinoblastoma and neuroblastoma predisposition and surveillance

J Kamihara, F Bourdeaut, WD Foulkes… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common intraocular malignancy in childhood.
Approximately 40% of retinoblastomas are hereditary and due to germline mutations in the …

Conservative management of retinoblastoma: Challenging orthodoxy without compromising the state of metastatic grace.“Alive, with good vision and no comorbidity”

FL Munier, M Beck-Popovic, GL Chantada… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Retinoblastoma is lethal by metastasis if left untreated, so the primary goal of therapy is to
preserve life, with ocular survival, visual preservation and quality of life as secondary aims …

Retinoblastoma, the visible CNS tumor: a review

H Dimaras, TW Corson - Journal of neuroscience research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The pediatric ocular cancer retinoblastoma is the only central nervous system (CNS) tumor
readily observed without specialized equipment: it can be seen by, and in, the naked eye …