Apr 1, 2014
Differentiation therapy holds promise as a targeted therapy for pediatric neuroblastoma
The important role of microRNAs in regulating neuroblastoma development has been unveiled by new research. This finding points to new...
Mar 11, 2014
New Cancer Treatment Offered in Minnesota Gives Families Hope
There are about 700 new cases of neuroblastoma in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Institute. It's a type of...
Mar 4, 2014
Improved screening means new targets for pediatric neuroblastoma therapies
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common and lethal types of childhood cancers. In a paper published online today in OncoTarget, a...
Mar 4, 2014
Simple blood test could improve treatment for deadly childhood cancer
A simple blood test could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of...
Jan 14, 2014
Natural substance studied for future treatment of possibly incurable childhood cancer
In a recent doctoral thesis submitted at Karlstad University, Christina Fjæraa Alfredsson shows how the substance ellagic acid found in...
Nov 7, 2013
Redirecting our immune cells to help fight children's cancer
Immune cells, known as Natural Killer T cells, could be redirected to help fight the childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, according to...
Aug 13, 2013
Breakthrough ‘shrinks’ childhood tumours
Cancer Research UK and the University of Southampton have unveiled a therapy for neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous...
May 27, 2013
Beta-blockers could enhance chemotherapies for childhood cancer
Beta-blockers could be used to enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapies for treating neuroblastoma. The disease is a type of...
Jan 22, 2013
Tumors evolve rapidly in a childhood cancer, leaving fewer obvious tumor targets
An extensive genomic study of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges in treating the most aggressive forms of this...
Dec 4, 2012
New gene-sequencing tools offer clues to highest-risk form of a childhood cancer
Using powerful gene-analysis tools, researchers have discovered mutations in two related genes, ARID1A and ARID1B, that are involved in...