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ArticleCancer research2021

Next-Generation Profiling of Medulloblastoma: Old Drugs Are an Elegant Weapon in a Civilized Age.

Carolina Nör, Vijay Ramaswamy

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Article in Cancer research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Carolina NörProgram in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Vijay RamaswamyProgram in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. vijay.ramaswamy@sickkids.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personalized therapies have remained elusive in medulloblastoma, resulting in treatment paradigms that have been largely stagnant for almost four decades. A recent study by Rusert and colleagues applies a novel integrated approach to the identification of new targets in medulloblastoma by combining genomics, transcriptomics, and high-throughput drug screening across a panel of molecularly characterized patient-derived models. Actinomysin D, a common chemotherapeutic agent, was identified as highly active in the most aggressive form of medulloblastoma, highlighting the power of this approach over genomic paradigms alone.

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Cerebellar NeoplasmsMedulloblastomaPharmaceutical PreparationsGenomicsHumansPrecision MedicinePharmaceutical Preparations

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