Researchers Find Inherited Genetic Condition Raises Risk of Developing Two Rare Pediatric Cancers
Led by a faculty member at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, an international team of experts has identified a genetic condition...
Feb 25
Genetic insights reveal pathways of childhood kidney cancer development
Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the...
Jan 24
Why a dangerous subtype of Wilms tumor is so resistant to chemotherapy
An international team, led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan, may have determined why the diffuse anaplasia (DA) subtype of...
Feb 13, 2024
Unraveling predisposition in bilateral Wilms tumor
Children with bilateral Wilms tumor have a tumor in each of their kidneys — a condition that strongly suggests an underlying genetic or...
Dec 22, 2023
Chronic Conditions More Likely Among Survivors of Pediatric Wilms Tumor
Survivors of Wilms tumor are more likely than the general population to experience chronic health conditions, according to a study...
Nov 10, 2022
Study finds that one third of children with a kidney tumor have hereditary predisposition
In a new study, researchers at the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology in Utrecht, the Netherlands, mapped out hereditary...
Mar 4, 2022
Researchers discover a new mechanism in childhood kidney cancer
"To execute their respective manuals, the cells employ so-called chromatin reader proteins that identify which gene is up for expression....
Dec 20, 2019
Root of childhood kidney cancer discovered
"A fundamental change in our understanding of the childhood kidney cancer Wilms' tumour is on the horizon, after the discovery of its...
Dec 6, 2019
New discovery could help doctors identify children at risk for Wilms’ tumor relapse
"Today, researchers from MSK Kids at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) published results that examine elevated levels of a...
Aug 9, 2019
Innovative vein treatment ends decades of suffering
As a toddler, he was diagnosed with a Wilms tumor, which resulted in the removal of a kidney and the rerouting of several arteries. The...
Jan 15, 2018