High-risk neuroblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer with poor treatment outcomes. Despite intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy, less than 50 percent of these children survive for five years. While the genetics of ...
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An international study, involving Newcastle University, has for the first time found a genetic marker in tumors from patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.
Jun 21, 2021
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Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma—a cancer of immature nerve cells—treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome ...
May 28, 2021
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Research led by scientists at Children's Cancer Institute and published this week in the international journal, Clinical Cancer Research, has found a combination of therapies that appears to be highly effective against high-risk ...
May 16, 2021
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Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer, most commonly affecting children aged between two to three and can be fatal. Since the tumor cells resemble certain cells in the adrenal glands, a joint research group from MedUni Vienna's ...
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A personalized tumor cell vaccine strategy targeting Myc oncogenes combined with checkpoint therapy creates an effective immune response that bypasses antigen selection and immune privilege, according to a pre-clinical study ...
Apr 2, 2021
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Preclinical research from VCU Massey Cancer Center published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the combination of two existing drugs can exploit the metabolic 'hunger' of a particularly ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Australian researchers have discovered a new way to target an aggressive childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, one of the most common and dangerous cancers in young children.
Mar 26, 2021
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A factor that turns malignant tumors into benign ones? That is exactly what scientists at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute have discovered. Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna and the ...
Mar 12, 2021
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A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers has identified that a chromosome instability gene, USP24, is frequently missing in pediatric patients with neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The finding provides ...
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