Brain and other central nervous system (CNS) cancers are the leading cause of childhood cancer deaths in the United States. This type of cancer is the second most common type of childhood cancer after leukemia.
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COVID-19 appears to have paralyzed a teen girl's vocal cords, blocking her breathing to the point that surgery was required, a new case report says.
Dec 19, 2023
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The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is more than just a trendy weight-loss tactic. It has also been known to help control seizures in children with epilepsy, particularly those who don't respond to first-line anti-seizure ...
Dec 18, 2023
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In 2003, the first year of her fellowship in pediatric oncology, two of Giselle Saulnier Sholler's first three patients had died from neuroblastoma, closely matching the 30% survival rate expected at the time for high-risk ...
Dec 15, 2023
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A prototype of an expanding artificial heart valve could make a big dent in the number of surgeries that many kids born with congenital heart disease need.
Dec 13, 2023
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Two clinical trials led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated early positive results from novel therapies targeting menin for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute leukemias ...
Dec 11, 2023
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Immunotherapy using modified chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells has greatly improved survival rates for pediatric patients with relapsed and recurrent leukemia. However, these therapies are not as effective in treating ...
Nov 30, 2023
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University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a potential gene therapy to "pre-treat" neuroblastoma tumors in order to make chemotherapy more effective.
Nov 30, 2023
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The University of Pennsylvania plans to continue offering CAR-T therapy, a cancer treatment pioneered at Penn, after the Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into whether the treatment may cause cancer ...
Nov 29, 2023
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Essential features of the cortex, an important part of the human brain and its development, are more accurately captured in organoids generated by researchers of the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology and the ...
Nov 28, 2023
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