ArticlePediatric blood & cancer2023
Children's Oncology Group's 2023 blueprint for research: Central nervous system tumors.
Article in Pediatric blood & cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Advances in the management of pediatric low-grade glioma.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Review
- Old Tools in a New Era: The Continued Relevance of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Review
- Genetic association of type 2 diabetes mellitus and glycaemic factors with primary tumours of the central nervous system.BMC neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Molecular characterization in the last decade has redefined CNS tumor diagnoses and risk stratification; confirmed the unique biology of pediatric tumors as distinct entities from tumors that occur in adulthood; and led to the first novel targeted therapies receiving Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children with CNS tumors. There remain significant challenges to overcome: children with unresectable low-grade glioma may require multiple prolonged courses of therapy affecting quality of life; children with high-grade glioma have a dismal long-term prognosis; children with medulloblastoma may suffer significant short- and long-term morbidity from multimodal cytotoxic therapy, and approaches to improve survival in ependymoma remain elusive. The Children's Oncology Group (COG) is uniquely positioned to conduct the next generation of practice-changing clinical trials through rapid prospective molecular characterization and therapy evaluation in well-defined clinical and molecular groups.
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