Comprehensive molecular characterization of infant medulloblastoma has uncovered the high degree of heterogeneity of this disease. Recent results from the SJYC07 study elegantly reveal that risk stratification can be improved if DNA methylation profiling data are incorporated into clinicopathological criteria. Importantly, the delineation of disease subgroups potentially has major clinical implications.
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M.R. acknowledges support from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. V.R. acknowledges support from the American Brain Tumor Association and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada.
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Remke, M., Ramaswamy, V. Infant medulloblastoma — learning new lessons from old strata. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 15, 659–660 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-018-0071-6
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