CHOP cancer doctors find success with gene drug 
Philadelphia Inquirer
Two of them had a rare inherited form of the solid tumor cancer known as neuroblastoma. Both achieved remissions. It was a phase 1 trial, designed to find a safe dose. The CHOP researchers came across this drug by searching for clues in the genetic ...
Children with Cancer Have Complete Responses in a Children's Oncology Group ... Sacramento Bee
ALK-Driven Pediatric Cancers Respond to Crizotinib Medscape
Experimental Drug Helps Fight Some Childhood Cancers, Study Finds U.S. News & World Report

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Personalized Rx for Children 
Wall Street Journal
The drug eradicated the cancer in seven out of eight kids with a childhood form of lymphoma and in two others with a deadly nervous-system cancer called neuroblastoma, researchers reported Wednesday. The medicine also appeared to have a beneficial ...
RPT-Pfizer drug effective in rare children's cancers Reuters
Children With Cancer Have Complete Responses in a COG Phase 1 Trial: Pills ... Science Daily (press release)
Pfizer Lung Drug Stops Deadly Child Cancers in Study BusinessWeek
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Brave Niamh Curry loses battle against cancer 
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
Five-year-old Niamh, of Wellingborough, had been battling neuroblastoma and had spent the last month in hospital fighting pneumonia. Her dad Chris tweeted at 1am today to say: ?Tonight my brave beautiful little girl lost her fight with cancer.

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Karate clubs fight for little Mitchell 
YOURTHUROCK
Little Mitchell, from Hornchurch, Essex is only 6 years old and suffers from Stage 4 Neuroblastoma Cancer. His family and friends are attempting to raise the £300000 that he needs to travel to Germany or the USA to get treatment for the disease.

 

Austin's merges into medical research traffic 
Austin American-Statesman
The event is a research symposium aimed at fighting a deadly pediatric cancer called neuroblastoma. It's the most common form of cancer among infants, and it accounts for about 15 percent of all childhood cancer deaths. Neuroblastoma attacks the part ...

 

New Research Computing Cluster for Childhood Cancer Ready to Help Fast-Track ... 
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Oncologists from the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) and biomedical researchers from TGen will use the new high performance computing and collaboration cloud to identify targeted treatments for pediatric ...

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Neuroblastoma fundraiser 
WGN Radio
Neuroblastoma is one of the deadliest forms of pediatric cancer. Survival rate is 40 percent in patients with advanced stage disease. Neuroblastoma is most common in infants and toddlers and has a higher incidence rate in infants than leukemia.

 

Study presents potential new treatment options for pediatric neuroblastoma ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
In this 10-year study, surgeons and oncologists who identified babies less than 6 months of age with a small tumor suggestive of neuroblastoma were given the option of immediate surgery or monitoring the baby carefully via ultrasound and urine tests.

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Taylor Swift's wins could help DuPage charity 
Chicago Sun-Times
CMT will make donations to each winner's designated nonprofit, and Swift chose the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation of Bloomingdale. Folks at a DuPage County cancer charity will be rooting for Taylor Swift at the CMT Music Awards.

 

Why Expose a Child to the Risks of a Clinical Trial? One Mom Explains 
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Ron Winslow She entered a clinical trial for a new drug against the potentially fatal childhood cancer neuroblastoma last summer, becoming one of the first children in the world to try the experimental medicine. This isn't an ordeal any toddler ...