Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three of four patients with neuroblastoma had stable disease through four or more treatment cycles. Phase 2 is ...

Neuroblastoma is a relatively common cancer affecting infants and young babies. Research into this disease is essential to develop accurate diagnostic and screening methods to diagnose the condition ...

Proton beam therapy induced survival outcomes that were equal to or better than photon radiotherapy, and may represent a viable treatment option for some patients with pediatric neuroblastoma.

Childhood neuroblastoma is often a fatal disease. Despite initial treatment success, most patients relapse or develop resistance to the current therapies. A new approach using a combination of two ...

Treatment for high-risk forms of neuroblastoma is effective but can cause serious complications. MSK researchers are investigating using a lower radiation dose to treat this cancer, which occurs in ...

For many decades, neuroblastoma has remained a challenging disease for both clinicians and researchers. Now, techniques that efficiently specify both comprehensive genetic and gene-expression ...

Despite improvements in cancer therapies in the past 50 years, neuroblastoma remains a devastating clinical problem and a leading cause of childhood cancer deaths. Advances in treatments for children ...

Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer, most commonly affecting children aged between 2 -3 and can be fatal. Since the tumor cells resemble certain cells in the adrenal glands, a joint research group ...

Neuroblastoma is a complex disease with many contradictions and challenges. It is, by and large, a cancer of babies and preschool children, but it does occur, albeit increasingly rarely, in older ...

Scientists have discovered gene mutations that are the main cause of the inherited (familial) version of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. In addition, the researchers found that the same mutations ...

A new study reveals that pediatric neuroblastoma patients are at elevated risk for long-term psychological impairment. In addition, those who experience such impairment as they get older tend to ...

A little girl with cancer who captured hearts across the globe after receiving a record-breaking 304,000 birthday cards has ...