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Improved health-related quality of life outcomes associated with SHH subgroup medulloblastoma in SIOP-UKCCSG PNET3 trial survivors

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This work was conducted on behalf of the UK Children’s Cancer and Leukemia Group (CCLG), and was supported by Grants from The Brain Tumour Charity and Cancer Research UK. Medulloblastomas investigated in this study were provided as part of CCLG approved biological study BS-2007-04. This study was conducted with ethics committee approval from Newcastle/North Tyneside and Trent RECs (study reference numbers 07/Q0905/71; MREC/02/4/019). The task of identifying associations between biological subtype and quality of survival was made possible by funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-13) under the project ENCCA, grant agreement HEALTH-F2-2011-261474.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

    Kim S. Bull & Colin R. Kennedy

  2. University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK

    Colin R. Kennedy

  3. Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Sir James Spence Institute Level 5, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK

    Simon Bailey & Steven C. Clifford

  4. Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

    David W. Ellison

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Bull, K.S., Kennedy, C.R., Bailey, S. et al. Improved health-related quality of life outcomes associated with SHH subgroup medulloblastoma in SIOP-UKCCSG PNET3 trial survivors. Acta Neuropathol 128, 151–153 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-014-1300-4

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