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Pediatric Cancer
Pediatric Cancer: is cancer in a child. In the United States, an arbitrarily adopted standard of the ages used are 0-14 years inclusive, that is, up to 14 years 11.9 months of age. However, the definition of childhood cancer sometimes includes adolescents between 15-19 years old. Leukemias, which are cancers of the bone marrow and blood, are the most common childhood cancers. They account for about 30% of all cancers in children. The most common types in children are acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
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JUL 01, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Smoking cigarettes alters dozens of genes in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Several of these chan ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JUN 30, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A report in the journal Blood revealed that scientists have found a protein that may diagnose chronic graft-versus-host ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 24, 2016Cancer
Rare cancers account for about 25% of cancer in adults and about 10% of pediatric cancer cases. Unfortunately, prognosis ...Written By: Cassidy ReichMAY 20, 2016Videos
It takes a village, right? That's the message the National Cancer Institute is sending on the National Cancer Moonshot I ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 23, 2016Cancer
In a large drug screening trial, scientists identified a unique drug combination that is effective against the most aggr ...FEB 12, 2016Immunology
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) affect 75,000 and 72,000 people each year in t ...Written By: Kara MarkerFEB 05, 2016Cancer
Overall brain cancer is rare, but it’s actually the most common form of solid tumors in children under 15 years ol ...Written By: Kara MarkerFEB 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Childhood brain cancers may fare better with proton beam therapy than conventional radiotherapies, say researchers from ...JAN 29, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Precision medicine makes its way to one of the most complicated organs in the body: the brain. Researchers from the Univ ...DEC 17, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
The year 2015 has been a big year for transplants surgery and it will end with an even bigger splash. Doctors at the Joh ...NOV 02, 2015Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 17, 2015Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 15, 2015Cancer
While osteosarcoma, the most common type of cancer that starts in the bone, is rare, the consequences can be devastating ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 27, 2015Neuroscience
Deadly brain tumors called high-grade gliomas grow with the help of nerve activity in the cerebral cortex, according to ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 24, 2015Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 30, 2015Cancer
Nearly 50 years after the "war on cancer" was declared in the United States, precision medicine presages an era of incre ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 13, 2015Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Unituxin (dinutuximab), part of a first-line therapy for high-r ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In an advance that could lead to better identification of malignant pediatric adrenocortical tumors, and ultimately to b ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
JUL 01, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Smoking cigarettes alters dozens of genes in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Several of these chan
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 30, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A report in the journal Blood revealed that scientists have found a protein that may diagnose chronic graft-versus-host
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 24, 2016
Cancer
Rare cancers account for about 25% of cancer in adults and about 10% of pediatric cancer cases. Unfortunately, prognosis
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
MAY 20, 2016
Videos
It takes a village, right? That's the message the National Cancer Institute is sending on the National Cancer Moonshot I
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2016
Cancer
In a large drug screening trial, scientists identified a unique drug combination that is effective against the most aggr
...
FEB 12, 2016
Immunology
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) affect 75,000 and 72,000 people each year in t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 05, 2016
Cancer
Overall brain cancer is rare, but it’s actually the most common form of solid tumors in children under 15 years ol
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Childhood brain cancers may fare better with proton beam therapy than conventional radiotherapies, say researchers from
...
JAN 29, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Precision medicine makes its way to one of the most complicated organs in the body: the brain. Researchers from the Univ
...
DEC 17, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
The year 2015 has been a big year for transplants surgery and it will end with an even bigger splash. Doctors at the Joh
...
NOV 02, 2015
Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 17, 2015
Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 15, 2015
Cancer
While osteosarcoma, the most common type of cancer that starts in the bone, is rare, the consequences can be devastating
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
Deadly brain tumors called high-grade gliomas grow with the help of nerve activity in the cerebral cortex, according to
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 24, 2015
Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 30, 2015
Cancer
Nearly 50 years after the "war on cancer" was declared in the United States, precision medicine presages an era of incre
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 13, 2015
Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Unituxin (dinutuximab), part of a first-line therapy for high-r
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In an advance that could lead to better identification of malignant pediatric adrenocortical tumors, and ultimately to b
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider