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Ewing sarcoma family of tumors

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-003043

A group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing (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.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-003043
FieldOncology and biomedicine
SynonymsEFTs
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-003043",
  "term": "Ewing sarcoma family of tumors",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing (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.",
  "synonyms": [
    "EFTs"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/ewing-sarcoma-family-of-tumors/"
}

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