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Scientists find new twist on drug screening to treat common childhood cancer

Posted 08-18-2010 at 04:10 PM by admin
Public release date: 18-Aug-2010

TORONTO – A study led by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been found. Rather than developing a new drug from scratch, which is a complicated and time-consuming process, they tried a different approach: in the lab, they tested existing drugs on cancer stem cells from young patients with neuroblastoma,...
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Physician-Scientist at Texas Children’s Cancer Center Receives $486,000 Grant

Posted 08-17-2010 at 01:21 PM by admin
Physician-Scientist at Texas Children’s Cancer Center Receives $486,000 Grant to Advance Research in Childhood Cancer

HOUSTON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donald W. (Will) Parsons, M.D., a physician at Texas Children's Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine, has been honored with a 2010 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award. Dr. Parsons, who works in collaboration with Dr. Richard Gibbs at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, specializes...
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A lethal brain tumor's strength may be a weakness as well

Posted 08-16-2010 at 03:36 PM by admin
Public release date: 14-Aug-2010

Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor – and one of the deadliest. Even as doctors make steady progress treating other types of solid tumor cancers, from breast to prostate, the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, called a glioblastoma multiforme or GBM, has steadfastly defied advances in neurosurgery, radiation therapy and various conventional or novel drugs.

But an international team of scientists,...
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Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors May Face Strength And Fitness Challenges As They Age

Posted 08-16-2010 at 03:28 PM by admin
Article Date: 14 Aug 2010 - 1:00 PDT

A large study focused on documenting the strength and fitness of childhood brain tumor survivors has found that many face health challenges as they age. The study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed that although most participants were young adults in their 20s, many functioned like people in their 60s, making them less likely to live independently or attend college.

Kirsten Ness, Ph.D., St. Jude Epidemiology...
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Deathstalker scorpion venom could improve gene therapy for brain cancer

Posted 08-11-2010 at 04:11 PM by admin
Public release date: 11-Aug-2010

An ingredient in the venom of the "deathstalker" scorpion could help gene therapy become an effective treatment for brain cancer, scientists are reporting. The substance allows therapeutic genes — genes that treat disease — to reach more brain cancer cells than current approaches, according to the study in ACS Nano, a monthly journal.


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