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...international team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School Professor Bjorn R. Olsen has pinpointed a possible treatment for the most common tumor found in children...
...research, published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature Medicine, claims to have found the mechanism by which the nonmalignant tumor grows and to have identified how to prevent the abnormal growth that causes infantile hemangioma...
...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants—mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...
Though the tumor begins shrinking after several years and disappears by puberty, Olsen estimates that a tenth of patients with the tumor suffer side-effects ranging from obscured vision to physical disfigurement...
...endothelial cells that line the blood vessels of the tumor, the study found, are derived from an abnormal cell not found in the healthy tissue. These cells have a self-replicating tendency that causes the proliferation of the tissue that creates the tumor...