A consortium including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology Group has performed an unprecedented genomic...

Although global inequalities in survival from childhood leukaemia have narrowed, they still persist with five-year survival in some...

Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV)—a common virus in the herpes family—may have an increased risk of developing acute...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that intermittent fasting inhibits the development and progression of the most...

Even when the treatment modalities have improved dramatically, especially for childhood leukemia, the Holy Grail remains the prevention...

A new vaccine helped leukemia patients fight their cancer and stay in remission for an average of almost five years, according to new...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer known for drug resistance and relapse. In an effort to uncover new treatment...

Researchers at Newcastle University have been able to accurately predict how children whose cancer returns after treatment for leukaemia...

Novel advances in the use of checkpoint inhibitors – such as an anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1 – to treat pediatric leukemia may result in the...

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....