Researchers map "genomic landscape" of childhood adrenocortical tumors for the first time
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an advance that could lead to better identification of malignant pediatric adrenocortical tumors, and ultimately to better treatment, researchers have mapped the "genomic landscape" of these rare childhood tumors. Their genomic mapping has revealed unprecedented details, not only of the aberrant genetic and chromosomal changes that drive the cancer, but the sequence of those changes that trigger it.