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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017, Stephanie Uy learned that her 22-month-old daughter, Aspen, had stage IV high-risk neuroblastoma. The cancer, which develops from the sympathetic nervous system, is the most common type of ...

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 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 ...

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in children, and patients with high-risk disease are challenging to treat. In a promising development, researchers at Baylor College of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The female sex hormone estrogen can perform an important role in neuroblastoma, a form of cancer mainly affecting young children. In laboratory experiments, researchers demonstrate that estrogen ...