Surgical resection provides improved survival advantage as well as histopathologic/molecular diagnosis of the tumor but is not curative. Total resection of an astrocytoma is often impossible because the tumors often exhibit tumor infiltration that is detectable only on a microscopic scale and/or invade ...
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our data. They also show that one sample was classified as a grade II astocytoma; however, the child had prolonged disease-free survival more in keeping with a diagnosis of JPA. This misclassification might also account for the findings of 7q34 duplication in some non-JPA LGA in the ...