Childhood cancer cells drain immune system’s batteries
Cancer cells in neuroblastoma contain a molecule that breaks down a key energy source for the body’s immune cells, leaving them too...
Aug 4, 2015
Children’s Cancer Is Unprofitable and Ignored
An estimated 2,000 children die of cancer each year, and the overall incidence of childhood cancer has been slowly increasing since 1975....
Jul 21, 2015
Sequencing Study Sees Frequent RAS-MAPK Mutations at Neuroblastoma Relapse
In Nature Genetics, an international team led by investigators in the US, Netherlands, and France pinpointed a role for the RAS-MAPK...
Jul 3, 2015
New pediatric cancer drug shows promising results for Austin boy
A new cancer treatment for children recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration is just the third pediatric cancer drug OK’d in...
Apr 14, 2015
FDA clears first therapy for rare childhood cancer
United Therapeutics' Unituxin has become the first-ever therapy approved in the US for neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer that most...
Mar 11, 2015
Classification of gene mutations in a children's cancer may point to improved treatments
Oncology researchers studying gene mutations in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are refining their diagnostic tools to predict which...
Nov 11, 2014
Seattle Children’s Begins Recruiting Patients for Immunotherapy Research Trial for Neuroblastoma, On
Seattle Children’s today announced the opening of patient enrollment for its new cellular immunotherapy clinical research trial designed...
Nov 11, 2014
Researchers identify new target for treating childhood cancers
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have uncovered a new target for drugs that could battle a lethal childhood cancer known as...
Oct 24, 2014
FDA grants orphan drug designation for neuroblastoma vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted orphan drug designation for a neuroblastoma vaccine from MabVax Therapeutics,...
Oct 6, 2014
New DNA technology may improve the treatment of aggressive childhood cancer
Neuroblastoma, a form of cancer, is the most common childhood tumour outside of the brain, and the one that has been the most difficult...
Jul 31, 2014