... impact of paediatric oncology papers and found that childhood cancer research is once again the poor relation ... of discouraging environment makes the achievements of childhood cancer research all the more praiseworthy", said Professor Richard Sullivan ...
... that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood cancer. The investigators found that the presence of common DNA ... , where he is the director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research. “Although there is much work to be done ...
... Tumour Trust, Paul Carbury said: "A quarter of all childhood cancers now occur in the brain and more children ... has the highest fatality rate of all childhood cancers. Research into the disease receives a fraction of the funding of higher ...
... multicenter team of childhood cancer researchers has discovered two genetic variations linked to an increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, the most common childhood cancer in the United States. Because these genetic ...
... North American centres under the leadership of Dr. Kirk Schultz, head of childhood cancer research at the Child & Family ...
... in treatment of the disease," said Helena Gleissman, Ph.D., co-author of the study from the Childhood Cancer Research Unit of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm ...
... gland in the abdomen. Neuroblastoma remains one of the most puzzling of childhood cancers—ranging from cases of widespread but benign ... 's Hospital and director of the Hospital's Center for Childhood Cancer Research. Just three years ago ...
... . So researchers at Imperial College London set out to investigate the risk of early childhood cancers ... ." In an accompanying editorial, John Bithell from the Childhood Cancer Research Group at the University of Oxford, says that clinicians ...
... -author of the study and director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Maris ... in the chest or abdomen. It accounts for 7 percent of all childhood cancers, but because it frequently occurs in an aggressive ...
... (PSST). The multi-institutional randomized trial, conducted through the Psychosocial Adaptation to Childhood Cancer Research Consortium, also showed that Spanish-speaking ...
... to the first use of biomarkers for medulloblastoma in the clinic. The Children's Oncology Group, an international cooperative for childhood cancer research, already plans to apply some of the new ...
... in the abdomen, neuroblastoma accounts for 10 percent of childhood cancer deaths. "Although genes closely ... , M.D., director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "We found that in addition ...
... D., a renowned leader in the research and treatment of childhood leukemia, is the recipient of the 2012 ... s many contributions to better understanding the blood cancer's biology and treatment as well as ...
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced $12 million in new federal funding for four Canadian research projects dedicated to improving cancer treatment for children.
