Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a new study in PNAS, Targeting EPHB2/ABL1 Restores Anti-Tumor Immunity in Preclinical Models of Ependymoma.

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.

Ependymoma is diagnosed using physical and ... A biopsy is the surgical removal of a small sample of the tumor for further testing and analysis. After the sample is retrieved, it is examined ...

These tumors are more common in children than adults. Because they rarely advance into surrounding tissue, low grade tumors like subependymomas and ependymomas are potentially treatable with surgery.

Such neoplasms exhibit multiple varieties of histologic patterns. The cellularity and architecture of ependymoma vary considerably, not only from case to case, but also from area to area within ...