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...
Creating a Clearer Picture of Hepatoblastoma
Hepatoblastoma is one of the fastest rising childhood cancers in the U.S., yet it’s still considered one of the rarest. It’s so rare, in fa...
Justin’s Legacy Shines On Through Research
From going to the Little League World Series to heading to soccer practice, Justin Cowen had an insatiable love of sports. You’d often find h...
Helping Young Adults Make Decisions About Life and Death
Twenty-five percent of adolescents and young adults (AYA) who need bone marrow transplants (BMT) will not survive. In many cases, a BMT is the ...
