ALLMedicine™ Chordoma Center

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Persons may be prone to develop cancer for a variety of reasons including: inherited predisposition benign, premalignant, or malignant conditions; environmental exposures shared by family members; previous tumors, immune deficiency, or...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Chordomas are a rare tumor with an incidence of 325 new cases per year in the United States. Pediatric chordomas are very rare and comprise only 5% of all chordoma cases. The standard therapy for localized primary or recurrent chordoma...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Synopsis Background: Chordoma is a rare, slow growing, often fatal bone cancer derived from remnants of the embryonic notochord. It occurs mostly in the axial skeleton (skull base, vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx), is more frequent in males than fema...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Chordoma is a rare, locally invasive neoplasm of the axial skeleton. Complete resection is often difficult, especially for the upper-cervical (C1-2) spine. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) for unresectable C1-...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - The advances of molecular techniques have led to the refinement of the classification of mesenchymal tumors, leading to newly introduced entities in the recently published fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Soft Tissue and Bone Tumors, whi...

Jun 8th, 2013 - Primary bone cancers are extremely rare neoplasms, accounting for fewer than 0.2% of all cancers. The evaluation and treatment of patients with bone cancers requires a multidisciplinary team of physicians, including musculoskeletal, medical, and r...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Persons may be prone to develop cancer for a variety of reasons including: inherited predisposition benign, premalignant, or malignant conditions; environmental exposures shared by family members; previous tumors, immune deficiency, or...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Background: Chordomas are a rare tumor with an incidence of 325 new cases per year in the United States. Pediatric chordomas are very rare and comprise only 5% of all chordoma cases. The standard therapy for localized primary or recurrent chordoma...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Synopsis Background: Chordoma is a rare, slow growing, often fatal bone cancer derived from remnants of the embryonic notochord. It occurs mostly in the axial skeleton (skull base, vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx), is more frequent in males than fema...

Jun 10th, 2022 - A Phase 1 open label trial of intravenous administration of TAEK-VAC-HerBy vaccine in patients with advanced brachyury and/or HER2- expressing cancer. The study will be completed in 2 stages. In Stage 1 patients will be enrolled and treated accord...

Jun 9th, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess the safety profile of nivolumab alone and nivolumab in combination with stereotactic radiosurgery to treat patients with recurrent or advanced chordoma. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate toxicity and tolerabilit...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Susan N. Chi, MD, senior physician, director, Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses the EZH2 inhibitor tazemetostat in pediatric patients w...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Susan N. Chi, MD, senior physician, director, Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses pediatric atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs). A...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Susan N. Chi, MD Tazemetostat demonstrated promising antitumor activity in pediatric patients with INI1-negative solid tumors, according to results presented at the 2018 American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Conference.1 In the dose-...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Susan N. Chi, MD, senior physician, director, Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses a phase I multicenter trial of tazemetostat in children...

Dec 4th, 2020 - Susan N. Chi, MD Tazemetostat showed promising antitumor activity in pediatric patients with INI1-negative rhabdoid tumors, epithelioid sarcoma, chordoma, and synovial sarcoma tumors, according to findings presented at the 2018 ASPHO Conference. ...