CAR T cell therapy targeting HER2 antigen shows promise against advanced sarcoma in phase I clinical trial
Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s...
May 30, 2024
Research with mice suggests new treatment for children with neuroblastoma cancer
Researchers are looking for new treatments to increase children’s survival rates from neuroblastoma, a rare solid tumour of young...
May 29, 2024
Scientists discover new insight into the genetic pathway of neuroblastoma
Researchers from the University of Sheffield have created a stem cell model designed to investigate the origins of neuroblastoma, a...
May 28, 2024
Colorectal cancer cases have increased in kids over the last 2 decades
A new 22-year analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that there were dramatic increases in colorectal...
May 27, 2024
Drug targeting RNA modifications shows promise for treating neuroblastoma
New research from the University of Chicago shows the potential for a promising new approach to treating neuroblastoma by targeting RNA...
May 24, 2024
Increased childhood leukemia risk with embryo transfer vs. natural conception
Children conceived via fresh or frozen embryo transfer may have increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia compared with children...
May 23, 2024
Brain cancer in children is notoriously hard to treat – a new mRNA cancer vaccine triggers an attack from within
We developed a new messenger-RNA, or mRNA, cancer vaccine, described in newly published research, that can deliver treatments more...
May 22, 2024
Unraveling the roles of non-coding DNA explains childhood cancer’s resistance to chemotherapy
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered non-coding genetic variants contributing to chemotherapy resistance...
May 21, 2024
Targeting specific protein regions offers a new treatment approach in medulloblastoma
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discovered a new compound that selectively targets parts of a cancer-related protein,...
May 17, 2024
A new era for treating high-risk neuroblastoma – research advances to look out for in 2024
It's an exciting time for research into high-risk neuroblastoma. Over the past year, multiple trials testing new treatments showed...
May 16, 2024

