With extraordinary commitment, the Ernst Göbel School in Höchst/ Odenwald raised a total of € 20,320 for children with cancer through a charity run.…
An international research team led by the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg…
Ependymomas, brain tumors that occur particularly in young children, are especially difficult to treat and more than half of the children affected…
The cancer cells of certain bone or soft tissue tumors in children and adolescents, known as Ewing's sarcoma, carry an extra copy of a chromosome that…
The “TFusion” project for the development of immunotherapies for children and adolescents with cancer receives funding of 1.5 million euros from the…
The cellular environment of a tumor can support or sabotage recovery. The most comprehensive study to date on the tumor microenvironment in low-grade…
Cancer cells of a certain form of rare and aggressive brain tumors in infants and young children show characteristics of immature brain cells. This…
Stem cell-like leukemia cells are responsible for relapses in children and adolescents with a certain type of blood cancer, T-ALL. Researchers at the…
KiTZ Director Stefan Pfister was elected to the European Academy of Sciences “Academia Europaea”. This promotes interdisciplinary European research…
Some cancer cells escape treatment by entering a kind of ‘hibernation’. These cells promote resistance and can lead to relapses in certain childhood…
