- Apr 16, 2019
Trial to assess novel targeted therapy for rare form of kidney cancer
A preclinical study that yielded new insights into a rare pediatric malignancy laid the foundation for a phase 2 trial that is evaluating...
- Apr 16, 2019
How Parents Use the Internet to Cope With a Child’s Cancer Diagnosis
Study results presented at the Oncology Nursing Society 44th Annual Congress described how parents use the Internet to build a support...
- Apr 10, 2019
Proton therapy shows efficacy, low toxicity in large cohort of children with high-risk neuroblastoma
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
- Apr 9, 2019
New hope for treating childhood brain cancer
Recent experiments in animal models of the disease have identified an experimental drug that effectively destroys DIPG cells. And a team...
- Apr 3, 2019
Parental Survivorship of Childhood Cancer - A Tough Road
In a recently released article in Pediatrics, Dr. Hannin Salem and a team of researchers based in Denmark have taken a thought-provoking...
- Apr 3, 2019
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Michigan working with mice...
- Apr 2, 2019
Largest study of childhood cancer after IVF
University of Minnesota researchers conducted the largest study of childhood cancer after conception by IVF to date. Read more:...
- Apr 2, 2019
Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT
A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who...