... that is the source of genetic events that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood cancer. The investigators found that the presence of common DNA variations in a region of chromosome 6 ...
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Researchers analyzed British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS) records ... identify patients who subsequently developed bladder cancer to determine whether treatment choice could be associated ...
... system cells more powerful. The combination has the potential to treat different types of childhood cancer, including osteosarcoma, leukemia and neuroblastoma, while possibly sparing young patients ...
... smoking, the authors assert. "Smoking cessation interventions would be more appropriate for the [British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study] cohort than smoking prevention interventions because a high ...
One-fifth of British adult survivors of childhood cancers are current smokers, and nearly a third have been regular smokers at some point in their lives, according to a study in the July 29 online ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have found a gene that causes most inherited forms of neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly form of childhood cancer, and say the discovery points to new treatments.
Scientists have developed a global blueprint for the treatment of the most common childhood cancer - neuroblastoma, which affects an estimated 11,000 children each year worldwide.
... M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and colleagues conducted ... treated with chest radiation and were participating in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), a North American ...
... being at an increased risk of breast cancer, most young women who were treated with chest radiation for a childhood cancer do not undergo appropriate mammography screening, according to a new study.
... The incidence of pediatric cancer has increased, however, the mortality rates of childhood cancer have decreased, resulting in more survivors. Along with that improvement comes what is known as "late ...
... is not good enough to just improve survival rates for these children. We need to ensure that as many childhood cancer patients as possible become more than survivors—rather we hope to have post-cancer ...
... DICER1 function lead to cancer," says lead author D. Ashley Hill, M.D., ... families with two or more members having PPB or related childhood cancers.
The scientists say that finding this variant form ...
... -term temporal patterns of increased risk of cancer at specific sites in survivors of childhood cancer," the authors write. "The results may be useful in the screening and care of these individuals."
... as a solid tumor in the chest or abdomen. Neuroblastoma accounts for 7 percent of all childhood cancers, but due to its often aggressive nature, causes 15 percent of all childhood cancer deaths.
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... tumor, neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, bone cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma.
For this population-based ... research needs to be done on why the risk for childhood cancer increases with advancing maternal age ...
