March - 2024

Mar 28

A team effort delivers a new tool for fighting neuroblastoma

Families of paediatric cancer patients have helped move a pioneering treatment for neuroblastoma from the lab to the clinic. Could this...

Mar 27

RNA-Based Therapy Shows Promise Against Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors in Mice

Targeting a non-encoding stretch of RNA may help shrink tumors caused by an aggressive type of brain cancer in children, according to new...

Mar 26

Study identifies patients who benefit most from dinutuximab-based immunotherapy

Using data from a randomized phase III clinical trial of neuroblastoma patients (treated with or without immunotherapy) performed by the...

Mar 25

CAR T cell therapy for pediatric patients: What parents should know

CAR T cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy that modifies T cells, so they can detect and fight cancer cells. This therapy is...

Mar 22

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

As calls mount for better screening, awareness and treatments, investigators are scrambling to explain why rates are increasing. The most...

Mar 21

‘Alarming’ number of childhood cancer survivors currently smoke despite negative impacts

Childhood cancer survivors had a significantly higher prevalence of smoking than the general population, contrary to previous research,...

Mar 20

Most survivors of childhood cancer don't get the tests needed to detect serious long-term adverse effects, finds study

Despite the existence of surveillance guidelines that recommend screening for adult cancers and other "late effects" of cancer therapy,...

Mar 19

For childhood cancer survivors, inherited genetic factors influence risk of cancers later in life

Common inherited genetic factors that predict cancer risk in the general population may also predict elevated risk of new cancers among...

Mar 18

Study: How fusion proteins hijack gene regulators to spur childhood cancer

A new study details how fusion proteins hijack a key gene regulator to spur childhood cancer. Read more: https://www.buffalo.edu/news/rel...

Mar 8

Study: Improved Chemotherapy and Surgery Eliminating Need for Radiation for Low-Grade Gliomas

Successful outcomes from evolving surgical and chemotherapy treatments for pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG) have greatly reduced the...

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CNIO opens up new research pathways against paediatric cancer Ewing sarcoma by discovering mechanisms that make it more aggressive

Larotrectinib Is Promising for Pediatric TRK Fusion-Positive CNS Tumors

Researchers identify gene signature for high-risk form of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?

FDA Grants Rare Pediatric Designation to Elraglusib for Ewing Sarcoma

Self-reported screening can reduce distressing symptoms for pediatric patients with cancer

Cell therapy fights lethal childhood brain cancer in Stanford Medicine trial

Increased Surveillance Recommended for Children at Risk for Hematopoietic Malignancy Predisposition

Targeted therapy and radiation synergize in pediatric high-grade glioma

Even 15 Years Later, Childhood Cancer Survivors More Likely to Develop Leukemia