Nov 27, 2019
Tests suggest potential therapy for a childhood leukemia
New research in mice indicates a possible targeted therapy for a form of pediatric cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Read more:...
Nov 26, 2019
Breakthrough in understanding common childhood cancer
"A study, led by experts at Newcastle University, UK, and published today in Clinical Cancer Research, has focussed on neuroblastoma...
Nov 25, 2019
Two-Drug Combo Shows Promise in Treating Childhood Brain Cancers
Researchers have tested a new drug combination that shows promise for the treatment of several types of childhood brain cancers known as...
Nov 14, 2019
Pediatric cancer can affect mental health of patients’ families long after initial diagnosis, study
Parents and siblings of children with cancer can struggle with anxiety, stress and other mental health issues long after the initial...
Nov 14, 2019
Researchers find new way to target childhood cancer
An international research effort has broken fresh ground in the race to find more effective treatments for the childhood cancer...
Nov 14, 2019
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumor treatment
Children who have received radiotherapy for a brain tumour can develop cognitive problems later in life. In their studies on mice,...
Nov 8, 2019
New molecule reduces the aggressiveness of pediatric cancer
A microRNA inhibitor identified by researchers at the FAPESP-supported Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center reduced the sizes of...
Nov 5, 2019
As children, they survived cancer. They faced the fallout as adults.
About one in every 600 young adults in the U.S. — 270,000 people aged 20 to 39 — is a cancer survivor, based on federal data. For most,...
Nov 5, 2019
Chemotherapy sometimes set the stage for drug-resistant leukemia at relapse
An international collaboration has identified therapy-induced, drug-resistance mutations in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
Oct 30, 2019
Risk of malignancy ‘markedly’ increased after childhood cancer
Children who received radiation treatment are nearly 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer as an adult, according to...