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
Experimental Drug Helps Fight Some Childhood Cancers, Study Finds
A new targeted drug therapy may help treat certain advanced cancers in children, a new preliminary study indicates. Read more:...
May 22, 2012
Fertility drugs more than double childhood cancer risk, scientists say
Children born to women who took fertility drugs are more than twice as likely to develop leukemia, French scientists announced Tuesday....
May 2, 2012
Children’s cancer drug shortage should ease, FDA says, but doctors, parents worry it’ll recur
TRENTON, N.J. — A severe shortage of a childhood cancer drug should ease before hospitals run out of it in a couple weeks, a top federal...
Feb 16, 2012