Maintenance Chemotherapy Extends Life for Children With a Rare Cancer – First Treatment Advance for This Cancer in 30 Years
A new chemotherapy strategy improves cure rates for children with rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare cancer of…
Browsing: Rare Cancers
Tiny particles could help fight brain cancer
Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumour, is one of the most difficult-to-treat cancers. Only…
New tool predicts deadly form of rare cancer
Two patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) can appear to have identical diseases upon first diagnosis…
High risk of death for young women exposed to DES in utero
A letter from three University of Chicago researchers in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine updates…
AACR 2018: Crizotinib yielded a high objective response rate for adult patients with ALK-positive inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour
Among patients with inoperable, advanced, or metastatic ALK-positive inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, 50 percent were confirmed…
Mifepristone may halt growth of intracranial tumour that causes hearing loss
Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers have shown that mifepristone, a drug currently FDA-approved for chemical…
Paediatric cancer drug shows 93 percent response rate
A first-of-its-kind drug targeting a fused gene found in many types of cancer was effective…
One quarter of penis cancer sufferers don’t get recommended treatment – halving the survival rate
A major international survey has found that around a quarter of patients are not receiving…
Epigenetic analysis: Giving the right name to a tumour
Scientists have substantially enhanced the classification of tumours of the central nervous system. Physicians will…
Link between BRCA1 and Ewing sarcoma found
Scientists with the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio have discovered…