While ependymoma is a rare type of brain or spinal cord tumor that occurs more commonly in children than in adults, it can ...

A consecutive series of 23 patients underwent operative removal of an intramedullary spinal cord ependymoma between January, 1976, and September, 1988. Thirteen women and 10 men between the age of ...

Kucia EJ, Bambakidis NC, Chang SW, Spetzler RF: Surgical technique and outcomes in the treatment of spinal cord ependymomas, part 1: intramedullary ependymomas. Neurosurgery 2011; 68: 57–63 ...

A staging system based on genetic markers could facilitate the stratification and prognostication of intracranial ependymomas, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a new study in PNAS, Targeting EPHB2/ABL1 Restores Anti-Tumor Immunity in Preclinical Models of Ependymoma.