The Hereditary Cancer research group from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has led an international collaboration that has allowed the genomic characterization of the most ...

Schwannomas – this rare (only about 8% of CNS tumors) form of tumor comes from the Schwann Cells – which insulate the ends of nerves and is responsible for creating the myelin sheath. Given this, ...

Peripheral nervous system tumors, known as neuroblastoma, are one of the most common types of childhood tumors. Researchers have now studied the genetic factors behind different tumor subtypes and ...

Two studies examine the cellular origins of peripheral nervous system tumors in mouse models of neurofibromatosis type 1 and conclude that stem cells may not be the culprits. Instead, more ...

Neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1, is a peripheral nervous system condition that afflicts one in 3,500 Americans. ... The most common NF1 tumors are called neurofibromas.

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes are incited by a tumor outside the nervous system that produces a characteristic antigen of the nervous system. An immune response against the ectopic tumor anti ...

Tumors can invade and utilize the nervous system for their growth and spread. Peripheral nerves provide a pathway for tumor cells to migrate and invade distant tissues.

However, only the nerve fibers project into the tumor, while the nuclei of the nerve cells lie far outside, in the ganglia, the control centers of the peripheral nervous system.