Using unique combination of diet and radiation therapy, researchers successfully destroy brain tumor cells
A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, ...
Cancer
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Study offers clues to cause of kids' brain tumors
(Medical Xpress)—Insights from a genetic condition that causes brain cancer are helping scientists better understand the most common type of brain tumor in children.
Genetics
Nov 16, 2012 |
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Gene sequencing project identifies abnormal gene that launches rare childhood leukemia
Research led by the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified a fusion gene responsible for almost 30 percent of a rare subtype of childhood leukemia with ...
Cancer
Nov 12, 2012 |
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Dental school, foster care agency partnership improves child health, aids student training
A partnership between a New York City dental school and a local foster care agency has provided consistent dental care to more than 650 children, and may serve as a model for other dental school program curriculums. The success ...
Pediatrics
Oct 21, 2012 |
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Lexatumumab tolerated for pediatric solid tumors
(HealthDay)—Lexatumumab, an agonistic, full human monoclonal antibody against tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand receptor 2, is well tolerated and may lessen certain clinical symptoms ...
Cancer
Oct 16, 2012 |
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Researchers study childhood melanoma characteristics
Melanoma, newly diagnosed in more than 76,000 Americans in 2011, is the most common and dangerous form of skin cancer. Melanoma is rare in children, accounting for 1 to 4 percent of all melanoma cases and just 3 percent of ...
Cancer
Sep 07, 2012 |
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New gene variants raise risk of neuroblastoma, influence tumor progression
Researchers have discovered two gene variants that raise the risk of the pediatric cancer neuroblastoma. Using automated technology to perform genome-wide association studies on DNA from thousands of subjects, the study broadens ...
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Baby born with brain cancer surviving with chemotherapy
Peering intently at the tiny white smudge in their baby's brain scan, Sue and Ben Erickson could see that the image did not reveal the miracle they had prayed for.
Cancer
Sep 03, 2012 |
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'Triple-threat' approach reduces life-threatening central line infections in children with cancer
Hospitals can dramatically reduce the number of life-threatening central line infections in pediatric cancer patients by following a set of basic precautions, by encouraging families to speak up when they observe noncompliance ...
Pediatrics
Sep 03, 2012 |
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Cancer gene family member functions key to cell adhesion and migration
The WTX gene is mutated in approximately 30 percent of Wilms tumors, a pediatric kidney cancer. Like many genes, WTX is part of a family. In this case, WTX has two related siblings, FAM123A and FAM123C. While ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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Loyola surgeons remove extremely rare tumor from 9-year-old girl
(Medical Xpress) -- Loyola University Medical Center surgeons have successfully removed an extremely rare pancreatic tumor from a patient who was only 9 years old.
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Jul 09, 2012 |
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Pediatric regime of chemotherapy proves more effective for young adults
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), usually found in pediatric patients, is far more rare and deadly in adolescent and adult patients. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, child ALL patients have a higher than ...
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Jun 18, 2012 |
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Study finds high risk of gastrointestinal cancers among childhood cancer survivors
Survivors of childhood cancers are at an increased risk of another battle with cancer later in life, according to new research published online June 4 by the Annals of Internal Medicine. In the largest study to date of ris ...
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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Drug might protect hearts of childhood leukemia survivors
About 75 percent of children with leukemia who take chemotherapy face life-threatening heart problems as they age, but an international study led by a University of Rochester Medical Center investigator shows that giving ...
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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World's largest release of comprehensive human cancer genome data helps speed discoveries
To speed progress against cancer and other diseases, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project today announced the largest-ever release of comprehensive human cancer ...
Genetics
May 29, 2012 |
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