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Sridharan Gururangan, Susan N. Chi, Tina Young Poussaint, Arzu Onar-Thomas, Richard J. Gilbertson, Sridhar Vajapeyam, Henry S. Friedman, Roger J. Packer, Brian N. Rood, James M. Boyett, Larry E. Kun From the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Dana-...

By Katherine Hobson First, the good news: better treatments saved the lives of about 38,000 childhood cancer patients between 1975 and 2006, with overall survival rates now at about 80%, according to a report published online yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Now, the bad: while...

MONDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Pediatric cancer patients often do not realize their treatment is part of a research study, do not have a good understanding of the research in which they are participating, and feel uninvolved in the decision-making process, according to a study published...

ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2010) — Parents and clinicians caring for children with brain tumors may experience significant challenges near the end of life due to the neurologic deterioration that often occurs in these patients. Shayna Zelcer, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., of Children's Hospital, London Health...

 Uri Tabori, Berivan Baskin, Mary Shago, Noa Alon, Michael D. Taylor, Peter N. Ray, Eric Bouffet, David Malkin, Cynthia Hawkins From the Divisions of Haematology/Oncology, Molecular Genetics, Neurosurgery, and Pathology and The Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick...

Applications for Children's Brain Tumor Foundation 2010 researcher-initiated basic and translational research grants will be available online beginning March 1, 2010. 

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil Medical College in New York and the Center for Neural Tumour Research in Los Angeles, have for the first time identified a key mechanism that...

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have performed the first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line, an advance that could lead to personalized treatments based on the unique biological signature of an individual's cancer and that may unveil new molecular...

The metabolic syndrome, as a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors, may represent an important connection between cancer treatment and its common late effect of cardiovascular disease. Insight into the aetiology of the metabolic syndrome after cancer treatment might help to identify and treat...

Newswise — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, today announced an unprecedented effort to identify the genetic changes that give rise to some of the world’s deadliest childhood cancers. The team has joined forces to...

An estimated one in 640 adults have survived childhood cancer, but very little is known about the lifestyle and health behaviors of these survivors -- especially minority survivors -- as they grow older.