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A CHOP research leader received an award from the University City Science Center to help develop a new T-cell based treatment for a childhood cancer.
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CHOP recipient, physician-scientist Dr. Yael Mossé, is innovating targeted, less toxic therapies for cancer affecting mostly infants and young children.
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Researchers at CHOP are working to discover the fundamental mechanisms that subvert normal neural development and orchestrate neuroblastoma tumorigenesis, and then to translate this knowledge into more effective and less toxic therapies.
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A new study finds important differences in how cancers develop in children as compared to adults, proving the concept that childhood cancers are not "small adult tumors."
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We present three cases of Ewing sarcoma treated at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where a multidisciplinary team of experts focuses on curing the patients as well as preserving limb function and growth potential.
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Pediatric patients with head and neck cancer can be treated with proton beam therapy instead of traditional photon radiation, resulting in similar outcomes.
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides two cases from its Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Program, where preserving limb function and growth potential are paramount to their successful treatment plan.
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By identifying common gene variants that raise the risk of an aggressive form of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma, researchers may assist diagnostic efforts.
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Oncology researchers studying high-risk children’s cancers have identified a cell surface protein that may offer an important target for immunotherapy, a treatment that has the potential to zero in on cancer cells without harming healthy cells.
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In a special airing on CBS Sunday Morning, Dr. Adamson details new therapies that are helping more children be cured.