From Western Telegraph: A Newport couple is hoping to raise £60,000 to fund treatment for their two-year-old daughter, diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer. Eliza Donnelly was diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma in July. This is a rare cancer of specialised nerve cells, diagnosed in less than a 100 children a year in the UK. In Eliza's case the cancer has spread throughout her body and into her bone marrow. They spent most of the summer in Noah's Ark Children's Hospital where … [Read more...]
Cyclacel’s CYC065 Demonstrates Promising Activity in MYCN-Addicted Neuroblastoma in Preclinical Data Presented at Childhood Cancer 2016
Data support CYC065 as potential treatment for MYCN amplified/overexpressed neuroblastoma Source: Cyclacel’s CYC065 Demonstrates Promising Activity in MYCN-Addicted Neuroblastoma in Preclinical Data Presented at Childhood Cancer 2016 … [Read more...]
Chad Carr Movement Accelerating Childhood Brain Cancer Research
Gifts in memory of Chad Carr, grandson of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, will help Michigan scientists to fight the deadly DIPG tumor Chad battled. Newswise — ANN ARBOR, Mich. – As Chad Carr fought brain cancer in the hospital wing named for his grandfather at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, he united and galvanized the Michigan community. Chad, the grandson of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, died at age 5 in 2015, 15 months after his diagnosis, but not before … [Read more...]
Children’s Neuroblastoma Parent Medical Conference
CHICAGO, July 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The only family education and medical conference focused solely on the latest treatments and clinical trials for neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer whose primary victims are infants and toddlers, returns July 14–17 to the Westin Hotel in Lombard, Illinois. Sponsored by the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation with generous support from United Therapeutics Corporation, the annual conference brings families together with the country's leading … [Read more...]
What is Neuroblastoma?
What is Neuroblastoma? Mainly affecting children, neuroblastoma is a relatively rare cancer of the sympathetic nervous system — a nerve network that carries messages from the brain throughout the body. Each year about 600 children in the United States will develop neuroblastoma. Generally developing in young children, it accounts for half of all malignancies in infants. These solid tumors, which take the form of a lump or mass, commonly begin in one of the adrenal glands, though they can also … [Read more...]
14:18 Full interview with Dr. Maris
Neuroblastoma: New Hope for Kids -- In-Depth Doctor's Interviews John Maris, M.D., Chief of the Division of Oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about a new type of immunotherapy for neuroblastoma that offers the first substantial cure rate of the cancer in more than 10 years. What is neuroblastoma? Dr. John Maris: Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer. It is a disease that affects young children. The average age of diagnosis is about 18 months, so these are … [Read more...]
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