Rakesh Jain Ph.D., Director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, is senior ...

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.

Ependymomas are a rare type of central nervous system tumor in the brain or spinal cord. Early diagnosis is essential to ...

OBJECT: The goals of this study were to analyze outcomes in patients with posterior fossa ependymomas, determine whether gross-total resection (GTR) alone is appropriate treatment, and evaluate ...

Of the 29 classic ependymomas studied, 24 (82.76%) cases were intracranially located, whereas 14 of them (58.3%) were in the posterior fossa and 5 (17.24%) were located within the spinal region.

A KINGSWINFORD man has launched an appeal for help to fund a trip the USA to pursue what might be his last hope to fight cancer and see his little boy grow up.