A staging system based on genetic markers could facilitate the stratification and prognostication of intracranial ependymomas, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

[4] The present study has attempted to evaluate CD99 as a possible specific marker that could selectively differentiate ependymomas from other CNS tumors. Both CD99 and EMA were also evaluated ...

The 38 cases of the ependymal tumors included 29 classic ependymomas, 3 tanycytic, 3 myxopapillary, and 3 anaplastic ependymomas. The 41 nonependymal tumors consist of 6 astrocytomas, 4 central ...

About 2%-3% of brain tumors are ependymomas (pronounced uh-pen-duh-mow-muhs). They occur in children and adults. They start in the ependymal cells that line the ventricles in your brain where your ...

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are widespread enzymes in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, and catalyze a crucially important physiological reaction: the hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate and ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine have evidence showing that, for childhood ependymomas, they do. In a rigorous medical records study covering tens ...

I am a medicinal chemist working within the Children's Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence on the synthesis of new compounds for the treatment of paediatric ependymomas. Andrea joined the ICR in July ...