- Nov 7, 2013
Redirecting our immune cells to help fight children's cancer
Immune cells, known as Natural Killer T cells, could be redirected to help fight the childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, according to...
- Aug 13, 2013
Breakthrough ‘shrinks’ childhood tumours
Cancer Research UK and the University of Southampton have unveiled a therapy for neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous...
- May 27, 2013
Beta-blockers could enhance chemotherapies for childhood cancer
Beta-blockers could be used to enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapies for treating neuroblastoma. The disease is a type of...
- Jan 22, 2013
Tumors evolve rapidly in a childhood cancer, leaving fewer obvious tumor targets
An extensive genomic study of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges in treating the most aggressive forms of this...
- Dec 4, 2012
New gene-sequencing tools offer clues to highest-risk form of a childhood cancer
Using powerful gene-analysis tools, researchers have discovered mutations in two related genes, ARID1A and ARID1B, that are involved in...
- Nov 20, 2012
Nanomedicine Breakthrough Could Improve Chemotherapy for Childhood Cancer
In a world-first, researchers from the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney have...
- Oct 19, 2012
DNA method can provide more effective treatment of childhood cancer
After leukaemia and brain tumours, neuroblastoma is the most common form of cancer to affect children. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska...
- Oct 4, 2012
New gene variants increase risk of paediatric cancer
Two new gene variants have been discovered by researchers from Italy and the United States that increase the risk of neuroblastoma, a...