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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2020

Medulloblastomics revisited: biological and clinical insights from thousands of patients.

Volker Hovestadt, Olivier Ayrault, Fredrik J Swartling, Giles W Robinson, Stefan M Pfister, Paul A Northcott

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 167 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
167citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

167 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 274 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Long-term outcomes of pediatric medulloblastoma before routine molecular classification: a 20-year single-center cohort study.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  8. Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of pediatric medulloblastomas from a Brazilian cohort: an exploratory study.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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107 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Volker HovestadtDepartment of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-6649
Olivier AyraultInstitut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR, INSERM, Orsay, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7942-6674
Fredrik J SwartlingDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-4367
Giles W RobinsonDepartment of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7441-9486
Stefan M PfisterHopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-5322
Paul A NorthcottDepartment of Developmental Neurobiology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. paul.northcott@stjude.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1220-5252
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USBroad Institute · USGerman Cancer Research Center · DEUniversité Paris-Sud · FRUppsala University · SE

Funding

Dissecting the Spectrum, Prevalence, and Molecular Mechanisms of Enhancer Hijacking in MedulloblastomaR01CA232143 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI NORTHCOTT, PAUL · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA232143
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumour primarily diagnosed during childhood, has recently been the focus of intensive molecular profiling efforts, profoundly advancing our understanding of biologically and clinically heterogeneous disease subgroups. Genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic and proteomic landscapes have now been mapped for an unprecedented number of bulk samples from patients with medulloblastoma and, more recently, for single medulloblastoma cells. These efforts have provided pivotal new insights into the diverse molecular mechanisms presumed to drive tumour initiation, maintenance and recurrence across individual subgroups and subtypes. Translational opportunities stemming from this knowledge are continuing to evolve, providing a framework for improved diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. In this Review, we summarize recent advances derived from this continued molecular characterization of medulloblastoma and contextualize this progress towards the deployment of more effective, molecularly informed treatments for affected patients.

Indexed as

Disease SusceptibilityAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorCombined Modality TherapyDisease ManagementEpigenomicsGenetic Association StudiesGenomicsHumansMedulloblastomaMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm StagingPrognosisProteomicsRecurrenceBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID31819232
PMCPMC9113832
OpenAlexW2991944835

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