Adult and pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 who have symptomatic plexiform neurofibromas that are not amenable ...

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 ...

also known as NF, which is a group of incurable genetic conditions that cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. Nashville is one of 30 cities across the U.S. that host an Undie Run ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.