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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3972687 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most common malignant solid tumors in childhood, which derives from the sympathoadrenal lineage of the neural crest and exhibits extremely heterogeneous biological and clinical behaviors. The infant patients frequently undergo spontaneous regression even with metastatic disease, whereas the patients of more than one year of age who suffer from disseminated disease have a poor outcome despite intensive multimodal treatment. Spontaneous regression in favorable NBs ...[more]