HemOnc Today
Posted December 4, 2009

A retrospective analysis of patients treated for pediatric cancers indicated that Ewing’s sarcoma and astrocytoma were the types most likely to recur within 20 years.

Researchers reviewed data collected on 12,795 patients, of whom 806 experienced recurrence five or more years after diagnosis. The median age at original diagnosis was 8.3 years; it was 26 years at follow-up. Most late recurrences occurred five to 10 years following...

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Pioneering study may open door to first targeted treatment for common childhood brain tumour

Insciences
Published on 16 April 2009, 05:58


Scientists have found evidence to suggest that ‘small molecule’ drugs could offer the first effective chemotherapy for childhood low-grade astrocytomas, improving the prognosis for hundreds diagnosed with the disease – reveals research published today in The Journal of Pathology.

The team of British and American...

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Environmental Health News


Shim Y, SP Mlynarek and E van Wijngaarden. Parental exposure to pesticides and childhood brain cancer: United States Atlantic Coast Childhood Brain Cancer Study. Environmental Health Perspectives doi:10.1289/ehp.0800209.
Synopsis by Heather Hamlin

Little is known conclusively about what causes brain cancer in children, but research studies are consistently finding links to prebirth pesticide exposure.

A new study finds...

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Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:00pm EST

By Gene Emery

BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors have identified two genetic mutations that control the growth and development of malignant gliomas, a particularly deadly and difficult-to-treat type of brain tumor.

The discovery opens the possibility of helping to distinguish between two subtypes of particularly deadly gliomas, known as primary and secondary glioblastoma multiforme, and may point the way to new treatments for the cancer...

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