A Cure in the Making
In talking about a new project to develop new treatments for osteosarcoma, University of Minnesota researcher Beau Webber, PhD, uses a word he ...
Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma
Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or deme...
Upcoming Clinical Trial Takes Aim at Brain Tumors
Childhood brain tumors cause the most cancer-related deaths among kids and young adults ages 0–19, recently surpassing leukemia. But, a profo...
Targeting Chemoresistant Leukemia Cells
Sometimes, leukemia cancer cells are so powerful they can overcome the most potent of chemotherapies. Because of support in part by Children's ...
Printing Tumors to Study Spreading Cancer
Dr. Angela Mortari uses a bioprinter to study spreading tumors. Photo courtesy of the University of Minnesota. In today's cancer research wor...
Hope for the Future of DIPG Treatment
In the past 40 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the world of childhood cancer research. Survival rates have risen dramaticall...
Study finds cancer rates in children are increasing
A new study at the University of Minnesota found that cancer rates in children are increasing all over the world. The study, led by Jenny Poynt...
Cancer Survival and Socioeconomic Status
Racial and ethnic disparities have long plagued health care, but according to Children's Cancer Research Fund Chief Medical Advisor Logan Spect...
Cell, Gene and Immunotherapy – Exciting Progress and New Hope
For kids like Jacob, a bone marrow transplant is often a risky but necessary treatment to keep cancer at bay. But it can also cause severe side...
Music Therapy Program Receives $50,000 Grant
When McKhia had to stay in the hospital after her bone marrow transplant (BMT) to treat her cancer, her days got long. Hospital rooms can be bo...
Less Toxic Treatments for Children with AML
Every so often, as Dr. Cara Rabik is in her lab studying better treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), she thinks of a patient she had wh...
Starving Cancer Cells – Blocking Glutamine in Aggressive B Cell Lymphoma
Glutamine, an amino acid, is in many of the foods we eat, like eggs, beef and milk. We need it to build proteins that make up our organs, it he...
A Better Target – Making Ewing Sarcoma Cells Sensitive to Chemotherapy
“Relapse.” “Metastatic.” These are the dreaded words too many Ewing sarcoma patients hear after weeks, even months, of cancer treatment...
Improving Survivorship Care
Current research data suggests childhood cancer survivors are not getting the care they need, which can become life-threatening. “Survivors t...
Reaching More Milestones: The Importance of Survivorship Care
Lucie Turcotte, MD, MPH, MS loves hearing about school, dating, graduations, weddings… everything “normal” in a childhood cancer survivor...
New Clinical Trial Aims to Tackle Deadliest of Brain Tumors
‘Midline malignant glioma’ is a mouthful – and it’s also one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer. A four year old child diagnose...
New clinical trial for osteosarcoma
A lot can happen in five years. Five years ago, Zach Sobiech was battling osteosarcoma and watching his hit song “Clouds” climb to the top ...
Tougher Than Rocket Science
Osteosarcoma is so overwhelmingly good at overcoming current treatments that it may just take a rocket scientist to help defeat it. Theresa Bee...