Child Cancer Survival Imperiled by Lack of New Drugs
Improving childhood cancer survival rates is being stymied by regulatory burdens and stagnant research approaches, U.S. and European...
Feb 20, 2013
Genetic Basis of High-Risk Childhood Cancer Points to Possible New Drug Treatment Strategy
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists lead a study that finds new genetic defects in high-risk childhood leukemia subtypes...
Jan 22, 2013
GSK, other firm's potential childhood cancer drugs undergo review
Four experimental cancer treatments that may one day help gravely ill children are facing review by U.S. pediatric advisers who have been...
Dec 18, 2012
Drugmakers Nudged by FDA to Find Childhood Cancer Cures
Four experimental cancer treatments that may one day help gravely ill children are facing review by U.S. pediatric advisers who have been...
Dec 5, 2012
Some parents misunderstand kids' cancer studies
Children with incurable cancer can take part in early trials of a new drug's safety, but many parents may misunderstand the goals of...
Oct 19, 2012
Existing drugs offer new treatment options for high-risk childhood leukemia subtype
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Scientists have identified new genetic alterations underlying a high-risk subtype...
Aug 13, 2012
Scientists develop new strategy to overcome drug-resistant childhood cancer
A new drug combination could offer hope to children with neuroblastoma – one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer – by boosting the...
Jul 12, 2012
Pharmaceutical firms to get incentives for child cancer drugs
When all else failed, the promise of corporate profits for pediatric cancer drugs did what cajoling to save children could not....
Jul 9, 2012
Celebrex-Derived Drug Targets Common Childhood Bone Tumor
Newswise — Jiayuh Lin, PhD, and colleagues at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have developed a drug to target the most common cancerous...
Jun 25, 2012
Potential drug targets identified in common childhood brain cancer
Researchers studying the genetic roots of the most common malignant childhood brain tumor have discovered missteps in three of the four...
Jun 21, 2012