Oct 23, 2023
FDA Expands Rozlytrek Indication to Include Some Solid Tumors in Children at Least 1 Month Old
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded indication for Rozlytrek (entrectinib) to include children older than one...
May 2, 2023
Immunotherapy improves the prognosis of babies with a very aggressive leukemia
A trial with thirty patients under one year of age confirms that adding a bispecific antibody to the chemotherapy treatment increases...
Jun 2, 2022
Exploiting a vulnerability in an aggressive leukemia affecting babies
New work finds that the cells that cause relapse in MLL-rearranged B-ALL can morph between two states, and that targeting one of these...
Mar 7, 2017
Early deaths from childhood cancer up to 4 times more common than previously reported
Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are over 80 percent. However, one group has failed...
Jul 25, 2016
Hope for less toxic drug for cancer babies
While children over age 12 months with a common form of leukaemia have a 90 per cent chance of being cured, many babies do not survive....
Jul 14, 2015
Babies heavier at birth more likely to develop childhood cancer, research finds
Groundbreaking research has found the heavier a baby is at birth, the more likely they are to develop childhood cancer. Read more here:...
Apr 10, 2013
IVF Babies May Be at Higher Cancer Risk
Children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF) or other fertility treatments appear to be at modestly elevated risk of cancer, although...