Article ; Online: Developmental Dysregulation of Childhood Cancer.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine
2024
Abstract: Most childhood cancers possess distinct clinicopathological profiles from those seen in adulthood, reflecting their divergent mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Rather than depending on the decades-long, stepwise accumulation of changes within a mature cell ... ...
Abstract | Most childhood cancers possess distinct clinicopathological profiles from those seen in adulthood, reflecting their divergent mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Rather than depending on the decades-long, stepwise accumulation of changes within a mature cell that defines adult carcinomas, many pediatric malignancies emerge rapidly as the consequence of random errors during development. These errors-whether they be genetic, epigenetic, or microenvironmental-characteristically block maturation, resulting in phenotypically primitive neoplasms. Only an event that falls within a narrow set of spatiotemporal parameters will forge a malignant clone; if it occurs too soon then the event might be lethal, or negatively selected against, while if it is too late or in an incorrectly primed precursor cell then the necessary intracellular conditions for transformation will not be met. The precise characterization of these changes, through the study of normal tissues and tumors from patients and model systems, will be essential if we are to develop new strategies to diagnose, treat, and perhaps even prevent childhood cancer. |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-05-01 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 2157-1422 |
ISSN (online) | 2157-1422 |
DOI | 10.1101/cshperspect.a041580 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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