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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Neuroblastoma Microenvironment, Heterogeneity and Immunotherapeutic Approaches
Contributor:
Polychronopoulos, Panagiotis Alkinoos;
Bedoya-Reina, Oscar C.;
Johnsen, John Inge
Published:
MDPI AG, 2024
Published in:
Cancers, 16 (2024) 10, Seite 1863
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3390/cancers16101863
ISSN:
2072-6694
Origination:
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Description:
Neuroblastoma is a peripheral nervous system tumor that almost exclusively occurs in young children. Although intensified treatment modalities have led to increased patient survival, the prognosis for patients with high-risk disease is still around 50%, signifying neuroblastoma as a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children. Neuroblastoma is an embryonal tumor and is shaped by its origin from cells within the neural crest. Hence, neuroblastoma usually presents with a low mutational burden and is, in the majority of cases, driven by epigenetically deregulated transcription networks. The recent development of Omic techniques has given us detailed knowledge of neuroblastoma evolution, heterogeneity, and plasticity, as well as intra- and intercellular molecular communication networks within the neuroblastoma microenvironment. Here, we discuss the potential of these recent discoveries with emphasis on new treatment modalities, including immunotherapies which hold promise for better future treatment regimens.