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Study identifies risk for some childhood cancer patients developing second
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 30 (ANI): Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma - a cancer of immature nerve cells - treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome that could then cause leukaemia in some ch
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Study finds multimodal therapy may hold key to treating aggressive childho
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 16 (ANI): Through the study published in the international journal, Clinical Cancer Research, scientists at Children's Cancer Institute have detailed a new combination of therapies that appears to be highly effective against high-risk neuroblastoma and other forms o
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Study suggests MRI scan used for heart disease can detect aggressive cance
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 4 (ANI): A recent study suggests that a type of smart MRI scan used in people with heart disease could help assess whether children's cancers are especially aggressive and spot early signs that targeted treatments are working.
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Study focuses on assessing cancer diagnosis in children with birth defects
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 30 (ANI): Scientific studies suggest that children with birth defects are at increased risk of cancer. However, it has not been assessed whether the type of cancer, the age at which they are diagnosed or the extent of cancer spread at the time of diagnosis, is diff
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Study discovers targeted therapy to help adolescents with deadly nerve can
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 18 (ANI): A targeted therapy has been discovered to treat adolescent patients who suffer from a deadly paediatric nerve cancer called neuroblastoma, a recent study has stated.
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