February 2, 2009 — The long-term results for a series of 153 children with localized ependymoma — a rare type of glioma — who were treated with conformal radiotherapy after aggressive surgery in a ...

Finding suggests that new drugs to treat ependymoma and other types of solid tumors should be designed to target the specific signal pathways that cause uncontrolled replication of cancer stem cells, ...

A 35 year-old woman presented with progressive quadriparesis, numbness of all four extremities and urinary incontinence over six weeks. Ependymoma: Sagittal MRI scans of the cervical and thoracic ...

An ependymoma is a rare tumor that begins in the central nervous system, which comprises the brain and spinal cord. Ependymoma cancer is anaplastic if the cancer cells grow rapidly and are unusual in ...

Ependymomas are tumors that grow in the brain or spinal cord and are the third-most common type of brain tumor in children. This type of cancer affects about 250 children in the United States each ...

Brain tumors called ependymomas that occur in different parts of the central nervous system appear to arise from subpopulations of stem cells called radial glia cells (RGCs), according to ...