Sex and Age May Influence Comorbidities in Pediatric ALL
While the overall prevalence of comorbidities at diagnosis in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and...
Apr 15, 2025
FDA Grants Rare Pediatric Designation to Treatment With NEO100 in Brain Cancer
The FDA has granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for NEO100 in the treatment of pediatric-type diffuse high-grade gliomas, a type...
Apr 10, 2025
Trial Shows Targeted Treatment for Childhood Brain Tumor is Safe
A Phase I clinical trial demonstrated that a targeted approach to treating a deadly brain tumor in children called diffuse intrinsic...
Apr 7, 2025
New approach speeds up personalized cancer treatment for young patients
A pan-Canadian team has developed a new way to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patients, by growing their tumors in...
Apr 4, 2025
Motor Deficits in Children Off Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Recent study results indicated that pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were experiencing some motor skill impacts...
Apr 3, 2025
Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?
It may seem unusual to discuss future fertility when a family is reeling from the diagnosis of a child’s cancer. But 85% of children with...
Apr 2, 2025
HRD HSCT Shows Promise Among Pediatric Patients With Hematologic Cancers
Among pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using...
Apr 1, 2025
Treating a deadly childhood cancer with a sideways approach
Neuroblastomas are the most common cancer in infants, with about 700–800 diagnoses per year in the US, according to the American Cancer...
Mar 27, 2025
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Higher Risk of Chronic Conditions, Early Death
Childhood cancer survivors are more likely than the general population to develop chronic health conditions and die before reaching 65...
Mar 26, 2025
A new CAR-T-cell therapy tricks cancer cells with a decoy to increase treatment efficiency in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
CAR-T cell therapy has significantly improved outcomes for B-ALL patients, but relapse still occurs in over 50% of cases, leaving many...
Mar 25, 2025

