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ReviewCell and tissue research2018

Neuroblastoma: clinical and biological approach to risk stratification and treatment.

Vanessa P Tolbert, Katherine K Matthay

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Review in Cell and tissue research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

145 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Circulating Beta3-Adrenoreceptor as Novel Independent Biomarker for Risk Assessment in Neuroblastoma Patients.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  11. Effect ofJCO precision oncology · 2026
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  19. Ganglioside Profiling Uncovers Distinct Patterns in High-Risk Neuroblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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85 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Vanessa P TolbertDepartment of Pediatrics, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA. Vanessa.Tolbert@ucsf.edu.
Katherine K MatthayDepartment of Pediatrics, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.

Funding

Tumor microenvironment-dependent therapy resistanceP01CA217959 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Kimberly Stegmaier · 2017 to 2026
$20.7M
Research Training in Childhood CancerT32CA128583 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero · 2007 to 2026
$6.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA217959NCI NIH HHS T32 CA128583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor of childhood and the most common in the first year of life. It is a unique malignancy in that infants often present with either localized or metastatic disease that can spontaneously regress without intervention while older children can succumb to the disease after months to years of arduous therapy. Given this wide range of outcomes, the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group was created to stratify patients based on presenting characteristics and tumor biology in order to guide intensity of treatment strategies. The goal has been to decrease therapy for low-risk patients to avoid long-term complications while augmenting and targeting therapies for high-risk patients to improve overall survival. The international risk stratification depends on age, stage, histology, MYCN gene amplification status, tumor cell ploidy and segmental chromosomal abnormalities. Treatment for asymptomatic low-risk patients with an estimated survival of > 98% is often observation or surgical resection alone, whereas intermediate-risk patients with an estimated survival of > 90% require moderate doses of response-adjusted chemotherapy along with resection. High-risk patients undergo multiple cycles of combination chemotherapy before surgery, followed by consolidation with myeloablative autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and local radiation and finally immunotherapy with differentiation therapy as maintenance phase. With this approach, outcome for patients with neuroblastoma has improved, as the field continues to expand efforts in more targeted therapies for high-risk patients.

Indexed as

Risk AssessmentDisease-Free SurvivalEarly Detection of CancerHumansNeoplasm StagingNeuroblastomaRisk FactorsClinical presentationNeuroblastomaPediatric oncologyRisk classificationTreatment

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PMID29572647
PMCPMC5918153

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