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ReviewNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.)2023

Current studies and future directions for medulloblastoma: A review from the pacific pediatric neuro-oncology consortium (PNOC) disease working group.

Tab Cooney, Holly Lindsay, Sarah Leary, Robert Wechsler-Reya

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Review in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Pediatric medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  14. Mechanistic insights into medulloblastoma relapse.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2024
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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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Tab CooneyDana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: Tab_Cooney@DFCI.HARVARD.EDU.
Holly LindsayTexas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Sarah LearySeattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA.
Robert Wechsler-ReyaDepartment of Neurology and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · USHarvard University · USSeattle Children's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant central nervous system tumor of childhood, comprising a heterogenous group of tumors each with distinct biology, clinical behavior, and prognosis. Long-term survival remains unacceptable, and those who do survive face high late mortality risk, new chronic treatment-related medical conditions, neurocognitive impairments, and poor health-related quality of life. Up-front treatment strategies now integrate molecular subgrouping with standard clinico-radiological factors to more actually risk stratify newly-diagnosed patients. To what extent this new stratification will lead to improvements in treatment outcome will be determined in the coming years. In parallel, discovery and appreciation for medulloblastoma's inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity continues growing. Clinical trials treating relapsed disease now encompass precision medicine, epigenetic modification, and immune therapy approaches. The Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (PNOC) Medulloblastoma Working Group is committed to developing clinical trials based on these evolving therapeutic strategies and supports translational efforts by PNOC researchers and the multi-stakeholder medulloblastoma community at large.

Indexed as

Cerebellar NeoplasmsMedulloblastomaChildHumansPrognosisQuality of LifeTreatment OutcomeClinical trialsEpigeneticsImmunotherapyMedulloblastomaPrecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID36516489
PMCPMC9755363
OpenAlexW4311538054

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Registered trials

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