Oncology & Cancer
New pediatric cancer marker: Hope for a treatment target
Researchers have newly identified a universal, essential biomarker for the childhood cancer neuroblastoma—and a potential new target for treatment.
Feb 28, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Clinical trial: Immunotherapy strongly improves prognosis of babies with leukemia
Immunotherapy with blinatumomab leads to a strongly improved survival rate—from 66% to 93%—for children with an aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). They also had fewer side effects from the treatment. ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Extreme poverty a key driver for relapse in kids with ALL
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who live in extreme poverty and were undergoing maintenance therapy faced an almost two-fold greater risk of relapse compared with kids who weren't as poor, according to a ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Extending chemo slashes risk of aggressive childhood leukemia coming back
Many children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have a good outcome of their disease. After two years of chemotherapy treatment, 9 out of 10 children are cured. But some children have a more aggressive form of the disease. ...
Dec 10, 2022
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Pediatrics
Exploring why some children with high-risk neuroblastoma are facing worse outcomes
Children with high-risk neuroblastoma had worse outcomes if they were from certain racial/ethnic groups, or were on public rather than private insurance, despite being treated in clinical trials with standardized protocols, ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Pediatrics
Race, ethnicity, and poverty linked to worse outcomes in children treated for high-risk neuroblastoma
Children with high-risk neuroblastoma had worse outcomes if they were from certain racial/ethnic groups or were on public rather than private insurance, despite being treated in clinical trials with standardized protocols, ...
May 26, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Targeting a rare secondary cancer in children
It's one of the most heartbreaking things Adam Green, MD, sees as a pediatric oncologist: children who beat their cancer, only to see an incurable brain tumor arise five years later.
Sep 28, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Childhood chemo alters heart's caretaker cells, study finds
Cancer chemotherapy changes the function of cells that repair heart injury, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) discovered. Twenty percent of children treated ...
Sep 29, 2020
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Pediatrics
Eliminating microaggressions in pediatric education
A patient is told their name is hard to pronounce. A doctor tells another doctor they speak English really well. While doing rounds, a resident is asked if she eats 'strange foods'.
Jul 17, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers ID risks for second childhood cancers
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments have helped children survive cancer. Now University of Minnesota researchers are trying to find the ideal combinations that prevent the disease from coming back.
Nov 26, 2019
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