An aggressive childhood cancer case opens new avenues for advanced cell therapies
Although relatively rare, many childhood cancers remain life-threatening and lack effective personalised treatments. Rhabdoid tumours are...
Sep 12
New insights into risk assessment of rare, aggressive tumors in children
An international research team including researchers from Augsburg University Medicine has made significant progress in the risk...
Dec 3, 2024
Researchers turn back the clock on cancer cells to offer new treatment paradigm
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discovered that removing a second protein from cancer cells already experiencing...
Apr 22, 2024
Epigenetic Combination Therapy Could Overcome Treatment Resistance in Epithelioid Sarcomas and Rhabdoid Tumors
Epithelioid sarcoma, a rare aggressive cancer that usually strikes young adults, and rhabdoid tumors, which affect children, have long...
Feb 16, 2024
Origin of childhood cancer malignant rhabdoid tumour discovered
The first proof of the origin of malignant rhabdoid tumour (MRT), a rare childhood cancer, has been discovered by researchers at the ...
Mar 3, 2021
New advances toward safely targeting immune cells to pediatric brain tumors
Stanford scientists have taken important steps toward figuring out how to use immune therapy for a group of severe pediatric brain tumors...
May 1, 2020
Researchers putting the brakes on lethal childhood cancer
Malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT) is one of the most aggressive and lethal childhood cancers [...] Now researchers at Vanderbilt University...
May 16, 2019
Trial to assess novel targeted therapy for rare form of kidney cancer
A preclinical study that yielded new insights into a rare pediatric malignancy laid the foundation for a phase 2 trial that is evaluating...
Apr 16, 2019
Scientists find 'chink in armour' of aggressive childhood cancer
Researchers believe they have found way to treat malignant rhabdoid tumours, which can kill children within months of diagnosis. Read...
Oct 25, 2016