Hope for less toxic drug for cancer babies
While children over age 12 months with a common form of leukaemia have a 90 per cent chance of being cured, many babies do not survive....
Jul 25, 2016
Methotrexate exposure impacts cognitive processes cancer survivors need to multitask
Research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital suggests that pediatric leukemia patients exposed to higher concentrations of the...
Jun 7, 2016
High Doses Of Common Chemo Drug Methotrexate Limit Relapses Of Childhood Leukemia
With a cure rate approaching 90 percent, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of childhood cancer, is one of the big...
Apr 27, 2016
MSU prof breaks ground with childhood cancer discovery
Today the drug is in clinical trials in 24 U.S. hospitals. Patient trials are aimed at assessing the drug's effectiveness against...
Jan 8, 2016
New drug may overcome treatment resistance in a high-risk children's cancer
Pediatric oncologists from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have reported their latest results in devising new treatments...
Jan 8, 2016
Support for fast-tracking new drugs into clinical trials for childhood acute leukemia
Children's Cancer Institute, under the direction of Principal Investigator, Professor Richard Lock, Head of the Leukaemia Biology...
Sep 9, 2015
Gene Variant Linked to Childhood Cancer Drug's Cardio Side Effects
In Nature Genetics, an international team described a gene variant that dials up the risk of heart problems in children treated with the...
Aug 4, 2015
Pre-clinical Studies Suggest Anisina May Improve Chemotherapy Effectiveness in Childhood Cancer
US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen Limited (NRT: ASX; NVGN: NASDAQ), today announced details of an in vivo proof of concept...
Jul 14, 2015
No evidence for cancer risk with growth hormone therapy
There is no evidence that growth hormone (GH) therapy increases the likelihood of neoplasms in children with no additional risk factors,...
May 5, 2015
Old cancer drug showing promising new results
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Apr 14, 2015