Berlak, Mareike https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4437-3477
Tucker, Elizabeth
Dorel, Mathurin
Winkler, Annika
McGearey, Aleixandria
Rodriguez-Fos, Elias
da Costa, Barbara Martins
Barker, Karen
Fyle, Elicia
Calton, Elizabeth
Eising, Selma
Ober, Kim
Hughes, Deborah
Koutroumanidou, Eleni
Carter, Paul
Stankunaite, Reda
Proszek, Paula
Jain, Neha
Rosswog, Carolina
Dorado-Garcia, Heathcliff
Molenaar, Jan Jasper
Hubank, Mike
Barone, Giuseppe
Anderson, John
Lang, Peter
Deubzer, Hedwig Elisabeth
Künkele, Annette
Fischer, Matthias
Eggert, Angelika
Kloft, Charlotte
Henssen, Anton George
Boettcher, Michael
Hertwig, Falk
Blüthgen, Nils
Chesler, Louis
Schulte, Johannes Hubertus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-1201
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Cancer Consortium
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (398299703)
H2020 European Research Council (949172)
Berlin School of Integrative Oncology
Innovative Medicines Initiative (116064-ITCC-P4-H2020-JTI-IMI2-2015-07)
BIH-Charité Advanced Clinician Scientist
National Institute for Health Research
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Article History
Received: 9 January 2022
Accepted: 22 April 2022
First Online: 10 June 2022
Declarations
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: Patients from Berlin, Germany were 22 months (patient 1, female) and 3 months old (patient 2, male) at diagnosis. The patient from London, UK was 26 months old (patient 3, female) and the patient from Cologne, Germany (patient 4, male) was 14 months old at diagnosis. For further information see Fig. A. German patients had been enrolled in the German Neuroblastoma Registry (NB Registry 2016) (). Written informed consent from patients or parents/guardians were obtained within the registry, ethics approval (16–432) was obtained from the ethics committee of the university hospital cologne. The GOSH patient was included in two research studies that had full UK research ethics approval and participated following informed consenting. Study one “Liquid biopsy study” was used for initial detection of mutations in plasma samples; study two “Strategic Medicine-Paediatrics” sequences tumour samples at time of relapse.All in vivo experimental protocols were monitored and approved by the ICR Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body, in compliance with guidelines specified by the UK Home Office Animals (Scientific procedures) Act 1986 and the United Kingdom National Cancer Research Institute Guidelines for the Welfare of Animals in Cancer Research [].
: We obtained consent for publication of each patient parents or legal guardian.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.