- Mar 29, 2016
Tempered Hope for Children with Cancer: Current Initiatives in the United States
The takeaway from this thumbnail analysis is that there are initiatives that could ultimately prove to be beneficial to the childhood...
- Feb 25, 2016
Forty-Four (and Other Brutal Numbers Associated With Childhood Cancer)
The National Institute of Health's web site (NIH) estimates that nearly 16,000 kids (roughly 44 each day) between the ages of 0 and 19...
- Dec 18, 2015
Promising new results from immunotherapy
After about five years of testing in humans, an experimental cell therapy that boosts the immune system continues to produce long...
- Oct 28, 2015
New finding offers clues for blocking cancer gene
A new study suggests a potential new way to block one of the most common cancer-causing genes, without causing severe side effects. Read...
- Oct 27, 2015
New hope for the 20 percent of kids who don't respond to standard cancer treatment
A new drug combination being trialled in a groundbreaking CHU Sainte-Justine/University of Montreal study is giving hope for survival,...
- Oct 8, 2015
Discovery led by MSU professor finds two common medicines can fight childhood cancer
Dr. Bachmann, who has a history of finding new uses for old drugs, found in his research that a combination of the drugs DFMO or...
- Sep 9, 2015
Support for fast-tracking new drugs into clinical trials for childhood acute leukemia
Children's Cancer Institute, under the direction of Principal Investigator, Professor Richard Lock, Head of the Leukaemia Biology...
- Sep 8, 2015
Nanotechnology: A new way to treat kids' cancer
Because chemotherapy kills cancerous and normal cells, some children face long-term complications including learning problems, bone...
- Sep 2, 2015
Big breakthrough at UAE-funded centre in finding a cure for childhood cancer
Researchers at a UAE-funded medical research centre have made a major breakthrough in finding a cure for a common childhood cancer....
- Jul 21, 2015
UofL Physicians Conducting Vaccine Trial for Children with Relapsed Tumors at Kosair Children’s Hosp
Today, however, they and their parents are finding hope in a Phase I research study led by Kenneth G. Lucas, M.D., chief of the division...