New Resource for Selecting Best Treatment Path for Young Children with Cancerous Tumors Published by NCCN
New NCCN Guidelines for Neuroblastoma address the importance and impact of risk stratification for treating one of the more common types...
Feb 20, 2024
Cancer researcher 'beefing up' natural killer cells to stop cancer
A UCF cancer researcher is discovering ways that the body's own natural killer (NK) cells can be energized to fight deadly pediatric...
Feb 6, 2024
European scientists target high-risk childhood cancer with liquid biopsy
Liquid biopsies are a promise for the future of personalized cancer medicine: Many children with high-risk neuroblastoma, i.e. 50 percent...
Feb 2, 2024
New treatment improves outcomes for children with rare cancer
A new treatment for a rare form of children’s cancer – which combines anti-tumour drugs with chemotherapy – improves the chances of...
Jan 16, 2024
Researchers find Zika virus is effective when used to treat a type of childhood cancer in mice
Injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus shrank or eliminated those tumors in studies with mice, suggesting that the virus could...
Jan 15, 2024
Immune atlas at cell level points to new combination treatment for incurable childhood cancer
A detailed 'atlas' of neuroblastoma tumors points to a new target for immunotherapy. Scientists from the Princess Máxima Center for...
Jan 8, 2024
How research helped lead to FDA approval of a pediatric neuroblastoma drug
The drug, called eflornithine (DFMO) and newly branded as IWILFIN by US WorldMeds, reduces the risk of relapse for pediatric high-risk...
Dec 20, 2023
Team develops gene therapy to ‘pre-treat’ neuroblastoma tumors
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a potential gene therapy to “pre-treat” neuroblastoma tumors in order to make...
Dec 13, 2023
NIH researchers develop approach that could help supercharge T-cell therapies against solid tumors
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed a way to potentially increase the effectiveness of T cell–based...
Nov 3, 2023
Developing ‘kinder’ treatments for a devastating childhood cancer
Neuroblastomas can be devastating to children and their families and the treatments can be harsh. But thanks to scientists, some...
Sep 20, 2023