For the past several years, the NF scientific community, including the UAB NF Research Program ... the body and recognized only if seen by imaging or if they cause symptoms. Because these tumors can ...

Inactivating germ line mutations in the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene are responsible for the many manifestations of this disease that range from intellectual deficits, to autism, to bone ...

Programmed cell death (apoptosis) seems to be the principal mechanism whereby anti-oncogenic therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation effect their responses. Resistance to apoptosis, therefore ...

So why run in one’s undies? For many with neurofibromatosis, their tumors, as well as the scars from their removal, or other effects of the disorder cannot be hidden. And so the idea is that for ...

Open-label, Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Crizotinib for Children and Adults with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and Progressive Vestibular Schwannomas Crizotinib (Xalkori®), a small molecule kinase inhibitor, ...

Children's Tumor Foundation raises awareness and funds research to fight neurofibromatosis and schwannomatosis (NF), a rare genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body.