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Chordoma

aka Childhood chordoma, Clival chordoma, Sacral chordoma

Chordoma is a slow-growing bone cancer of the skull base and spine that arises from leftover embryonic notochord cells. Complete surgery followed by high-dose proton or carbon-ion radiotherapy controls most tumours, and the whole disease depends on a single transcription factor, brachyury, which vaccines and degraders are now trying to hit.