- May 26, 2014
Novel Target Found for Chemotherapy-Resistant Leukemia Cells
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have discovered that by targeting a particular receptor, chemotherapy-resistant cancer...
- May 9, 2014
Experimental antibody shows early promise for treatment of childhood tumor
Tumors shrank or disappeared and disease progression was temporarily halted in 15 children with advanced neuroblastoma enrolled in a...
- May 9, 2014
Exploring a mobile app to promote physical activity for childhood cancer survivors
W hile advances in cancer treatments have led to an increase in the number of childhood cancer survivors in the United States, this...
- May 5, 2014
Children's Oncology Drug Alliance (CODA) Formed to Facilitate Development of Treatments for Chil
Alliance of Australian and U.S. researchers and children's cancer advocates focused on developing drugs as potential treatments for...
- May 2, 2014
Snoopy, Hello Kitty go 'bald' for kids with cancer in cartoon campaign
For children with cancer, it can be difficult when treatment causes hair loss. So a Brazil-based campaign united some of pop culture’s...
- May 2, 2014
Taste and smell dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors
Childhood cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy may have long-term negative impacts on taste and smell function,...
- Apr 25, 2014
How Big the Breast Cancer Risk After Radiation as Child?
Women who survived childhood cancers treated with chest radiotherapy had a breast cancer risk 20 times greater than that of women in the...
- Apr 23, 2014
Why Don’t Kids with Cancer Get the Drugs They Need?
In the last 25 years, just two drugs have been approved specifically to treat pediatric cancer in the United States, Vickie Buenger,...