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Read moreAssorted News from Last Week: Congress approved the fiscal year 2022 omnibus spending package on March 11. It included great news for the childhood cancer community: the STAR Act will receive $30M and the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative will receive $50M. Pediatric cancer mortality and survival has only improved over the past 40 years in the United States (US) but disparities remain. However, there are often various factors that play a role including age, race/ethnicity, cancer site, and economic status, which can change the outcome or treatments of individuals. In one of the most complicated evacuations likely ever managed from […]
Read moreAssorted news from last week: The story of Moonshot4Kids meets the White House Moonshot: CAC2 Member Janet Demeter (Jack’s Angels) encourages medical research investment into cures for children with cancer at the 2022 Cancer Moonshot announcement event. CAC2 Member, the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) launched a new research initiative, the DNA Damage Response Consortium, in partnership with Yale Cancer Center. The consortium will bring together a diverse team of renowned adult and pediatric researchers to rapidly advance a new class of promising potential treatments that can target a brain tumor’s DNA damage response network. More than 60% of patients with […]
Read moreAssorted news from last week: Study finds no link between Body Mass Index and thyroid cancer in teens with nodules. When acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapses, it is more difficult to treat and outcomes are dismal. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a mutation in pediatric AML that physicians can use to identify high-risk patients and better guide treatment. An elevated level of urinary 3-methoxytyramine (3MT) is tied to poor prognosis in pediatric neuroblastoma, according to research published in JCO Precision Oncology. Researchers also found that elevated 3MT was associated with 8 differentially expressed genes, providing a gene […]
Read moreAssorted news from last week: Dr. Brigitte Widemann appointed as the Special Advisor to NCI Director Ned Sharpless for childhood cancer. When Jace Ward joined a clinical trial for a novel therapy for DIPG, he had been fighting a deadly brainstem tumor for more than a year. He told his Doctor at Stanford, Michelle Monje, “I know that I’m going to die, and I know this therapy will one day be the thing that cures other kids. Figure it out with me… I don’t want it to be a 5-year-old who has to go first.” This is his story and the […]
Read moreAssorted news from the last two weeks: Adolescents and young adult cancer survivors are more likely to have psychological distress and additional annual medical expenses than adults with no history of cancer, according to a study published in Cancer. The FDA has granted both Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Drug Designation Lantern Pharma’s drug candidate LP-184 for the treatment of pediatric patients with ATRT. Two anti-cancer antibodies have a much stronger effect against pediatric nerve-cell and bone cancers in mice than either one alone, researchers have discovered. The Spanish perspective: The future of pediatric oncology lies in precision medicine. […]
Read moreAssorted news from the last two weeks: Children with chronic health conditions, including cancer, and those with special education needs, should receive more help with online learning. Allarity Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncology therapeutics together with drug-specific DRP® companion diagnostics for personalized cancer care, and Oncoheroes Biosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing new therapies for childhood cancers, today announced that they have entered into licensing agreements under which Oncoheroes will acquire exclusive, global development rights to Allarity’s therapeutic candidates dovitinib, a pan-targeted kinase inhibitor (pan-TKI), and stenoparib, a PARP inhibitor, and assume responsibility for their […]
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