Parental Alcohol Use Linked To Increased Cancer Risk In Children, Texas A&M Researchers Find
New research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has discovered that parents who chronically abuse...
Feb 20
New drug, WNTinib, delays tumor growth and improves survival in mouse models of children's liver cancer
A new drug called WNTinib can delay the growth of tumors and improve survival in hepatoblastoma, a type of liver cancer that occurs in...
Oct 25, 2024
Immunotherapy for children with primary liver carcinomas: Research offers new hope
Pediatric hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and fibrolamellar carcinoma are rare, aggressive forms of liver cancer that typically affect...
Sep 6, 2024
Surprising origins for a rare cancer
It’s been enormously difficult to pinpoint the cause of many cancers—and many seem to have more than one origin. Fibrolamellar carcinoma...
Jun 25, 2024
Immunotherapy targeting cancer fusion protein may hold key to treating rare liver cancer
Findings from scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center suggest T-cell...
Apr 9, 2024
Organoid models provide new scientific insights into a rare childhood liver cancer
Scientists of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology and Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands have revealed new scientific ...
May 5, 2023
New research identifies a potential treatment target for hepatoblastoma in children
In a novel study appearing in The American Journal of Pathology, investigators studying a mouse model of hepatoblastoma report that the ...
Jan 24, 2023
Childhood Liver Cancer "Signatures" May Help Predict Response to Chemo
A new UC San Francisco study sheds light on the diversity within the most common type of pediatric liver tumor and suggests a way forward...
Aug 29, 2022
New molecular subset of pediatric liver cancer identified
New research from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center characterizes a new molecular type of high-risk...
May 18, 2022
Immunotherapy for kids: An option for childhood liver cancer?
This rare and aggressive form of childhood liver cancer shares enough similarities with its adult counterpart to make it a good disease...
May 4, 2022