Stefan Pfister, a director of the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), a department head at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and a...
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common solid childhood tumors, and forms even before the baby is born. In high-risk patients, certain genetic...
Neuroblastoma can spread relentlessly or shrink spontaneously. Scientists from the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the German Cancer...
During embryonic brain development, neural stem cells pass through a series of strictly regulated development phases. A mutation in a protein that...
A new drug combination could help improve survival and quality of life for some children with a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour,...
Childhood neuroblastomas display extreme differences in the way they develop: they can shrink spontaneously or spread aggressively to healthy tissue....
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Hopp Children’s Cancer...
The German Childhood Cancer Foundation (Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung, DKS) is providing EUR 2.2m to fund the first phase III clinical trial to...
Around 2,000 children in Germany are diagnosed with cancer every year. The chances of recovery are now good, but if the cancer comes back, the...
Medulloblastoma are the most common malignant brain tumors affecting children. The greatest danger is that the cancer cells can quickly spread to the...
