Trial to assess novel targeted therapy for rare form of kidney cancer
A preclinical study that yielded new insights into a rare pediatric malignancy laid the foundation for a phase 2 trial that is evaluating...
Apr 16, 2019
How Parents Use the Internet to Cope With a Child’s Cancer Diagnosis
Study results presented at the Oncology Nursing Society 44th Annual Congress described how parents use the Internet to build a support...
Apr 16, 2019
Proton therapy shows efficacy, low toxicity in large cohort of children with high-risk neuroblastoma
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Apr 10, 2019
New hope for treating childhood brain cancer
Recent experiments in animal models of the disease have identified an experimental drug that effectively destroys DIPG cells. And a team...
Apr 9, 2019
Parental Survivorship of Childhood Cancer - A Tough Road
In a recently released article in Pediatrics, Dr. Hannin Salem and a team of researchers based in Denmark have taken a thought-provoking...
Apr 3, 2019
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Michigan working with mice...
Apr 3, 2019
Largest study of childhood cancer after IVF
University of Minnesota researchers conducted the largest study of childhood cancer after conception by IVF to date. Read more:...
Apr 2, 2019
Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT
A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who...
Apr 2, 2019
Drug Shortages Threaten Childhood Cancer Treatment
Despite the vital need for these drugs, they are often in short supply. A new paper published in JAMA Pediatrics discusses these drug...
Apr 2, 2019
Research links development of childhood leukaemia to mistakes by the immune system
Genetic mutations that drive the development of a common type of childhood leukaemia can be traced back to errors by the immune system...
Mar 25, 2019