11. She suffered from neuroblastoma , a cancer in children. 12. The urine test checks for substances called catecholamines that are made by neuroblastomas . 13. Neuroblastoma is diagnosed in about 700 children in the United States every year.14. Injected in high doses into mice, resveratrol slowed the growth of neuroblastomas . 15. The mechanism for this neuroblastoma HDM2 hyperactivity is unknown. 16. Chemotherapy agents used in combination have been found to be effective against neuroblastoma . 17. They found that it induced moderate apoptosis levels only in SHEP neuroblastoma cells. 18. In addition the HDAC8 enzyme has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuroblastoma . 19. DUF1220 domains are found in all other members of the neuroblastoma breakpoint family. 20. The organization has become the largest single funder of neuroblastoma research at MSKCC.
