Marker of Ewing sarcoma: Potential new drug target? <<>>

Written by EurekAlert! - Cancer on February 8, 2010 – 5:00 am -

(Journal of Clinical Investigation) Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is a bone tumor that affects children and adolescent adults. The protein CD99 is highly expressed in most cases of EWS, but its function in the disease is unfamiliar. Now, researchers take identified a crucial function for CD99 in the evolution of EWS and intimate that targeting CD99 or its downstream molecular pathway may be a new therapeutic approach for EWS <<>>

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