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Innovative surgery preserves limb growth for childhood bone cancer patients

Ewing’s sarcoma, osteosarcoma, and other bone cancers often impinge upon the growth plates of children’s arms and legs, explained...

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CAR-T Cell Therapy Shows EFS Benefit in Pediatric Leukemia Subset

Treatment with bicistronic CD19/CD22 CAR-T cell therapy has shown event-free survival improvements in children with relapsed or...

2 days ago

Global clinical trial shows improved survival rates for common childhood leukemia

Early study results were so promising that the trial closed early, with findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

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More than half of children with cancer die in the hospital

Children with cancer died at home less often than adults, according to study results. Children with racial or ethnic minority backgrounds...

Dec 13

A new CHOP research program is exploring ways to reduce long-term effects of cancer treatment

A new research program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will focus exclusively on the long-term effects of cancer treatment in...

Dec 12

The ticking ‘epigenetic’ clock measures true biological age

Though almost all childhood cancer survivors experience some epigenetic age acceleration, the experience is not the same across the whole...

Dec 11

Serum protein panel test can help identify cardiomyopathy risk in childhood cancer survivors

Findings from scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are showing promise for assessing cardiomyopathy risk in childhood...

Dec 10

UCalgary researchers help preserve future fertility options for children impacted by cancer

University of Calgary researchers are giving children and adolescents whose fertility may be impacted by cancer, or treatments associated...

Dec 6

How a Penn State professor developed a cancer-fighting drug for kids

Giselle Saulnier Sholler has spent 20 years working treatments for neuroblastoma, a particularly aggressive form of early childhood...

Dec 3

New insights into risk assessment of rare, aggressive tumors in children

An international research team including researchers from Augsburg University Medicine has made significant progress in the risk...

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