The Scientist : Understanding Wilms' progression [5/8/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020805-02

5 August 2002

Wilms' tumor is the most frequent renal neoplasm in children, but little has been known about the genetic alterations that determine its prognosis. In August 3 The Lancet Yong-Jie Lu and colleagues at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, Sutton, UK, show that expression profiles of chromosome 1q can predict relapses in Wilms' tumor (Lancet 2002, 360:385-386).

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