- 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...