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ReviewCancers2025

The Molecular Basis of Pediatric Brain Tumors: A Review with Clinical Implications.

Elias Antoniades, Nikolaos Keffes, Stamatia Vorri, Vassilios Tsitouras, Nikolaos Gkantsinikoudis, Parmenion Tsitsopoulos, John Magras

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Review in Cancers, 2025. 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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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

7 authors.

Elias AntoniadesSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9137-5363
Nikolaos KeffesSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0008-4299-1865
Stamatia VorriNew York City Health and Hospital-Jacobi Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6100-1985
Vassilios TsitourasSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikolaos GkantsinikoudisSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7868-6880
Parmenion TsitsopoulosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.
John MagrasSecond Department of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University School of Medicine, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Central nervous system (CNS) tumors are the most common solid malignancy in the pediatric population. These lesions are the result of the aberrant cell signaling step proteins, which normally regulate cell proliferation. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways and tyrosine kinase receptors are involved in tumorigenesis of low-grade gliomas. High-grade gliomas may carry similar mutations, but loss of epigenetic control is the dominant molecular event; it can occur either due to histone mutations or inappropriate binding or unbinding of DNA on histones. Therefore, despite the absence of genetic alteration in the classic oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes, uncontrolled transcription results in tumorigenesis. Isocitric dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations do not predominate compared to their adult counterpart. Embryonic tumors include medulloblastomas, which bear mutations of transcription-regulating pathways, such as wingless-related integration sites or sonic hedgehog pathways. They may also relate to high expression of

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epigenetic regulationHippo signalingmicroRNA regulationmitogen-activated kinase pathwayNFkB pathwayphosphoinositide 3-kinase pathwaysonic hedgehog pathwaywingless pathway

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PMID40361492
PMCPMC12071314

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