Could CAR-T-cell therapy offer hope to children with cancer?
The immunotherapy is beginning to show promise in solid tumours, but researchers want more dedicated research in young people. Read...
Dec 23, 2022
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...
Jun 23, 2022
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 ...
Oct 13, 2021
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 ...
Jul 13, 2021
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 ...
May 25, 2021
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...
Apr 5, 2021
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...
Jan 26, 2021
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...
Dec 2, 2020
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 ...
Nov 30, 2020
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...
Apr 1, 2020

