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Bookmark or Share- Research on Childhood Cancers - NCI - National Cancer InstitutePosted: April 11, 2023. Results from a new study highlight the progress being made toward developing liquid biopsies specifically for use in children with solid cancers like Ewing sarcoma and Wilms tumor. The tests can help detect and diagnose cancer and monitor for response to treatment and recurrence.
- Childhood Cancer Research Organization - CUREResearch has led to significant improvements in survival rates for many childhood cancers over the past few decades. For example, the five-year survival rate for all childhood cancers combined has increased from less than 60% in the 1970s to more than 80% today.
- Progress against Childhood Cancer with Better Data, TrialsClinical trials conducted by the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), an NCI-funded network of researchers and hospitals, have been among the biggest contributors to improvements in the treatment of children with cancer and the continued increase in cure rates for several childhood cancers.
- Childhood Cancer Research Highlights | American Cancer SocietyRisk & Prevention Studies. Seeking Out the Cause of a Rare, Aggressive Childhood Leukemia. Researchers’ evaluation of data from 5,000+ children with cancer may open new avenues for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of AML. New Findings About the Genetic Risks of Childhood Cancer.
- Recent advances in pediatric cancer research - PMCRecently, several pediatric pan-cancer genomic studies have been completed and have reported that pediatric tumors contain fewer coding mutations than adult tumors, that TP53 remains the most frequently recurring mutation, and that mutations in epigenetic-associated genes were common events ( 3 – 6 ).
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