Predominant Cancer in Children Gets Potential New Drug Therapy
Scientists at the Children’s Hospital Los Angles (CHLA) have developed a new and much needed treatment to combat drug resistance in the...
Jan 27, 2015
Drug targets identified through cell line to potentially treat rare pediatric cancer
A team of investigators at the Cumming School of Medicine have made key new findings about an extremely rare childhood cancer called...
Jan 21, 2015
Many Minority Kids With Cancer Missed Needed Medication
Children with leukemia from certain minorities were less likely to get medications to prevent relapse. Read more here:...
Jun 5, 2014
Children's Oncology Drug Alliance (CODA) Formed to Facilitate Development of Treatments for Chil
Alliance of Australian and U.S. researchers and children's cancer advocates focused on developing drugs as potential treatments for...
May 5, 2014
Why Don’t Kids with Cancer Get the Drugs They Need?
In the last 25 years, just two drugs have been approved specifically to treat pediatric cancer in the United States, Vickie Buenger,...
Apr 23, 2014
CanCertainty: Campaign for Equal and Fair Cancer Treatment for All Canadians
Cancer patients in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces should not be systemically discriminated against simply because the cancer-fighting...
Mar 18, 2014
EU rules "mean children can't get life-saving cancer drugs"
(Reuters) - Children with cancer are being denied access to potentially life-saving medicines because European Union rules allow drug...
Feb 11, 2014
Gene sequencing project finds family of drugs with promise for treating childhood tumor
Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and...
Dec 17, 2013
Double-pronged attack could treat common children’s cancer
A dual-pronged strategy using two experimental cancer drugs together could successfully treat a childhood cancer by inhibiting tumour...
Nov 28, 2013
Childhood Cancer: The Continued Shortage of Life-Saving Drugs
The shortage of medication in the world of childhood cancer is not new. It is a recurring problem and a concrete plan needs to be enacted...
Nov 27, 2013

