‘We now know our enemy’: UBC study offers new hope for treating relapsed childhood leukemia
New therapies have dramatically improved survival rates among children with pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (pAML)—a cancer that starts...
Feb 8, 2024
RNA sequencing analysis may hold the key to more accurate diagnosis and targeted treatment of pediatric B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Pilot study by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and City of Hope proposes a promising global, clinically applicable genomic assay for the...
Feb 5, 2024
Study finds concerning contributing factor to childhood cancer: ‘These findings have important public health implications’
Environmental Health News (EHN) reports that a recent large study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute links...
Jan 29, 2024
Updated genomic landscape for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia enables new treatment possibilities
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital refined and enhanced the classification system for a type of pediatric leukemia using...
Jan 18, 2024
Could the gut microbiome play a key role in preventing childhood leukaemia?
Now a team of researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London suggests that the microbiome could play an important role...
Jan 4, 2024
Childhood Leukemia Pain Relief Tips
For every possible cause of childhood leukemia pain, your child’s team of doctors and healthcare providers has a way to manage it. Read...
Dec 15, 2023
DNA sequencing reveals clonal evolution of tumor in childhood leukemia
Researchers at the RUDN Laboratory of Biology of Single Cells have studied the possibilities of DNA sequencing at the level of individual...
Dec 14, 2023
Study shows potential of new treatment strategies for most common childhood cancer
UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) have made a key discovery about how...
Dec 8, 2023
Scientists discover new Achilles heel of leukemia cells
A team led by Jan-Henning Klusmann from the Department of Pediatrics and Dirk Heckl from the Institute for Experimental Pediatric...
Dec 5, 2023
Childhood Leukemia Linked to Pesticides Used in Vineyards
A study published in Environmental Health Perspective finds the risk of acute childhood leukemia (AL), specifically acute lymphoblastic...
Nov 7, 2023