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Pushing T cells down "memory lane" may improve cancer therapy

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital identified proteins that help decide T cell fate and used the finding to improve...

Researchers ‘extraordinarily optimistic’ about potential of CAR-T for pediatric brain cancer

Researchers hope to replicate the successes in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia — among the most common pediatric cancers — by ...

Immunotherapy Trial May Be Feasible to Combat Pediatric Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors

An innovative clinical trial led by Dr. Nicholas Vitanza, a neuro-oncologist at Seattle Children’s, shows promise that delivering ...

New insight into when CAR T is effective against childhood leukemia

Scientists and clinicians at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) studying the effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapies in children ...

Study: Stem Cell Transplants Prevent Relapses of Most Common Childhood Cancer

Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, suffer...

Modified version of CAR T-cell therapy shows promise in targeting neuroblastoma

Now, a group of scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have developed a modified version of CAR T that shows promise in targeting...

Investigating Packaged CAR T-Cells For Early Childhood Eye Cancer

For some children with the rare eye cancer retinoblastoma, results from a study in mice suggest that a type of immunotherapy known as...

New immunotherapy shows promise against rare childhood cancer

A novel CAR T-cell therapy developed by researchers at UCL and designed to target cancerous tumours, has shown promising early results ...

Could a CAR-T Version 2.0 Be on the Way?

"A clinical trial will be the only way to truly answer whether this treatment will work in children with resistant disease, but the study...

'What price life?' At a cost of hundreds of thousands a dose, novel cancer-killing drug spar

"The high-ticket price is part of a larger question. 'How much are we willing to pay to survive disease, and how much are governments...

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To wipe childhood cancer off the map, scientists must chart its genomic landscape

Childhood Liver Cancer "Signatures" May Help Predict Response to Chemo

New chemical technology leads to better targeted therapeutics against high-risk leukemia in the lab

Hopes of a new curative treatment for children with neuroblastoma

Scientists are a step closer to finding a low toxicity treatment for childhood leukaemia

Researchers identify an Achilles’ heel in neuroblastoma

To save children with cancer, doctors turn to new weapons

Childhood Cancer Survivors Are at an Increased Risk for Hospitalization Years After Treatment Ends

Novel targeted therapy could be effective treatment option for deadly childhood cancer

Gene That Causes Deadliest Brain Tumor Also Causes Childhood Cancer