Retinoblastoma

H Dimaras, TW Corson, D Cobrinik, A White… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the infant retina that is diagnosed in approximately 8,000
children each year worldwide. It forms when both retinoblastoma gene (RB1) alleles are …

Conservative management of retinoblastoma: Challenging orthodoxy without compromising the state of metastatic grace.“Alive, with good vision and no comorbidity”

FL Munier, M Beck-Popovic, GL Chantada… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Retinoblastoma is lethal by metastasis if left untreated, so the primary goal of therapy is to
preserve life, with ocular survival, visual preservation and quality of life as secondary aims …

A high-risk retinoblastoma subtype with stemness features, dedifferentiated cone states and neuronal/ganglion cell gene expression

J Liu, D Ottaviani, M Sefta, C Desbrousses… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is the most frequent intraocular malignancy in children, originating from a
maturing cone precursor in the developing retina. Little is known on the molecular basis …

Rb suppresses human cone-precursor-derived retinoblastoma tumours

XL Xu, HP Singh, L Wang, DL Qi, BK Poulos… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a childhood retinal tumour that initiates in response to biallelic RB1
inactivation and loss of functional retinoblastoma (Rb) protein. Although Rb has diverse …

Retinoblastoma: etiology, modeling, and treatment

R Kaewkhaw, D Rojanaporn - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Retinoblastoma is a retinal cancer that is initiated in response to biallelic loss of RB1 in
almost all cases, together with other genetic/epigenetic changes culminating in the …

Human embryonic stem cell-derived organoid retinoblastoma reveals a cancerous origin

H Liu, Y Zhang, YY Zhang, YP Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most prevalent intraocular malignancy in children, with a
worldwide survival rate< 30%. We have developed a cancerous model of Rb in retinal …

Genomic cfDNA analysis of aqueous humor in retinoblastoma predicts eye salvage: the surrogate tumor biopsy for retinoblastoma

JL Berry, L Xu, I Kooi, AL Murphree, RK Prabakar… - Molecular Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Tumor-derived cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has biomarker potential; therefore, this study aimed to
identify cfDNA in the aqueous humor (AH) of retinoblastoma eyes and correlate somatic …

The biology of retinoblastoma

PR Mendoza, HE Grossniklaus - Progress in molecular biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Retinoblastoma, the most common primary intraocular cancer of childhood, is a malignancy
arising in the developing retina. Tumor formation usually begins with mutation in both alleles …

Genetics in ophthalmology: molecular blueprints of retinoblastoma

L Marković, A Bukovac, AM Varošanec, N Šlaus… - Human Genomics, 2023 - Springer
This review presents current knowledge on the molecular biology of retinoblastoma (RB).
Retinoblastoma is an intraocular tumor with hereditary and sporadic forms. 8,000 new cases …

Retinoblastoma: From genes to patient care

Y Bouchoucha, A Matet, A Berger… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Retinoblastoma is the most common paediatric neoplasm of the retina, and one of the
earliest model of cancer genetics since the identification of the master tumour suppressor …