Ewing family of tumors

Ewing family of tumors

The Ewing family of tumors is a group of cancerscite journal |author=Iwamoto Y |title=Diagnosis and treatment of Ewing's sarcoma |journal=Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=79–89 |year=2007 |month=February |pmid=17272319 |doi=10.1093/jjco/hyl142 |url=http://jjco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=17272319] that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing tumors (EOE tumors), primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET or peripheral neuroepithelioma), and Askin tumors (PNET of the chest wall). These tumors all come from the same type of stem cell. Also called EFTs.

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* [http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=322134 Ewing family of tumors] entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms


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