CAC2 Childhood Cancer Community News Digest (February 27-March 5)
Assorted News from the Last Week: In March last year, the CCDI Molecular Characterization Initiative (MCI) launched. Since then, it has opened enrollment to children, adolescents, and young adults newly diagnosed with central nervous system tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, and rare tumors—with plans to expand. Results have been returned to more than 750 participants. Prediction models for kidney failure in long-term survivors of childhood cancer Researchers have developed a new drug delivery approach that uses nanoparticles to enable more effective and targeted delivery of anti-cancer drugs to treat brain tumors in children National Cancer Institute (NCI) is launching a first-of-its-kind, [...] Read more