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Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasm — Research · CancerIndex

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Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasm

CI-CAN-00000316Explore in graph →

Non-malignant71 active trials8 evidence items

NCIt: C3321
MeSH: D010524

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PublishedShowing 1–9 of 9 publications · bibliographic data as recorded by PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced.

Selumetinib in Children with Inoperable Plexiform Neurofibromas.
· N Engl J Med · 2020 · PMID 32187457 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Activity of Selumetinib in Neurofibromatosis Type 1-Related Plexiform Neurofibromas.
· N Engl J Med · 2016 · PMID 28029918 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors with t(X;18). A pathologic and molecular genetic study.
· Mod Pathol · 2000 · PMID 11144931 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Germline mutations in the vhl gene in patients presenting with phaeochromocytomas.
· Int J Cancer · 1998 · PMID 9663592 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Paraganglioma in a 13-year-old girl: a novel SDHB gene mutation in the family?
· Cancer Genet Cytogenet · 2010 · PMID 20193854 · validated civic_curation pubmed
BET bromodomain inhibition triggers apoptosis of NF1-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors through Bim induction.
· Cell Rep · 2014 · PMID 24373973 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Poly (ADP) ribose polymerase inhibition: A potential treatment of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor.
· Cancer Biol Ther · 2016 · PMID 26650448 · validated civic_curation pubmed
Fisher, M. J. et al. Acta neuropathologica 2021

Showing 1–9 of 9 publications

· 2021 · PMID 33585982 · validated cbioportal_study pubmed

Lee et al. Nat Genet 2014

· 2014 · PMID 25240281 · validated cbioportal_study pubmed