Topic: Pediatric Cancer
Reuters US Online Report Science News | 2009-06-18 13:32:23
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - A missing stretch of DNA on a chromosome involved in nervous system development may help explain why some children are predisposed to a deadly type of tumor called neuroblastoma, researchers reported on Wednesday.</p><p>The study is the first to show that repeats or deletions of a ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-06-17 18:01:04
<div><p>Scientists reported Wednesday the first link ever found between cancer and a type of genetic defect, called copy number variation, characterised by missing or extra bits of DNA.</p><p>The breakthrough came in a study on neuroblastoma, a devastating paediatric disease of the nervous system that accounts for 15 ...
AP News | 2009-06-15 16:18:57
<div id="subtitle">Brad Pitt, siblings donate $1M to hometown Missouri hospital to open new cancer center</div><div><p>Brad Pitt and his siblings have given $1 million to help a Missouri hospital open a new pediatric cancer center that will be named for their mother.</p><p ...
WENN | 2009-06-13 16:24:13
Terrence Howard
sells lemonade outside of the Ritz-Carlton to raise money for the child cancer charity, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 12.06.09
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