Researchers Discover Genes that Give Rise to Neuroblastoma
Each year in the United States, approximately 650 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive children’s cancer found in the part of the nervous system outside of the brain that controls the body’s internal organs. There are a number of forms of neuroblastoma and combined, they account for 4% of all children’s cancer diagnoses, but cause 12% of deaths in children with cancer.


