Jul 30, 2021
International Collaboration Helps Refine Treatment for Childhood Leukemia
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are working with colleagues in China to develop better therapy for childhood acute...
Jul 29, 2021
Tiny bubbles used to treat common childhood cancer
Researchers at UCL have developed a new way to deliver drugs that can shut down cancer-promoting mutations in neuroblastoma. The...
Jul 26, 2021
Geneticists Reveal How Mutation Causes a Devastating Childhood Cancer
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable ...
Jul 21, 2021
Frailty contributes to neurocognitive decline in young adult childhood cancer survivors
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found a link between post-cancer treatment frailty and neurocognitive decline...
Jul 13, 2021
Immunotherapy Trial May Be Feasible to Combat Pediatric Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors
An innovative clinical trial led by Dr. Nicholas Vitanza, a neuro-oncologist at Seattle Children’s, shows promise that delivering ...
Jul 12, 2021
Can leukemia in children with Down syndrome be prevented?
For the first time, Princess Margaret researchers have mapped out where and how leukemia begins and develops in infants with Down...
Jul 9, 2021
New generation anti-cancer drug shows promise for children with brain tumours
A genetic map of an aggressive childhood brain tumour called medulloblastoma has helped researchers identify a new generation ...
Jul 8, 2021
Potential Treatment May Prevent Cancer Cells From Hijacking Metabolic Pathways
Now researchers in the Feng lab at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with scientists in the Simon lab at ...
Jul 7, 2021
Melanoma registry results shine light on rare pediatric cancer
Pediatric melanoma is a rare disease with only around 400 cases diagnosed in the United States every year. To better understand this ...
Jul 6, 2021
Cancer neuroscientists identify a key culprit behind pediatric brain cancer’s spread
Now, research led by USC investigators has shined new light on how medulloblastoma travels to other sites within the central nervous ...