Abstract:Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) accounts for 50% of all soft-tissue childhood sarcomas and is characterized by tumor cells that molecularly and morphologically resemble undifferentiated skeletal muscle. Treatment involves an aggressive regimen of chemotherapy followed by surgical resection and/or radiation therapy. Although survival rates can be as high as 70-90% in low-risk or localized disease, patients with oligoclonal or relapsed disease have extremely poor prognoses. Thus, there is a clinical imperative to identif… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.