Rhabdomyosarcoma

SX Skapek, A Ferrari, AA Gupta, PJ Lupo… - Nature reviews disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and
represents a high-grade neoplasm of skeletal myoblast-like cells. Decades of clinical and …

Toward the cure of all children with cancer through collaborative efforts: pediatric oncology as a global challenge

C Rodriguez-Galindo, P Friedrich… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Advances in the treatment of childhood cancers have resulted in part from the development
of national and international collaborative initiatives that have defined biologic determinants …

Perspectives on the causes of childhood leukemia

J Wiemels - Chemico-biological interactions, 2012 - Elsevier
Acute leukemia is the most common cancer in children but the causes of the disease in the
majority of cases are not known. About 80% are precursor-B cell in origin (CD19+, CD10+) …

Global challenges in pediatric oncology

C Rodriguez-Galindo, P Friedrich… - Current opinion in …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Childhood cancer burden is shifted toward LMICs; global initiatives directed at pediatric
cancer care and control are urgently needed. International partnerships facilitating stepwise …

Genomics of racial and ethnic disparities in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

JYS Lim, S Bhatia, LL Robison, JJ Yang - Cancer, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Although the cure rates of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have improved
dramatically in the past 40 years, not all children have benefited equally from this impressive …

ARID5B Genetic Polymorphisms Contribute to Racial Disparities in the Incidence and Treatment Outcome of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

H Xu, C Cheng, M Devidas, D Pei, Y Fan… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Recent genome-wide screens have identified genetic variations in ARID5B
associated with susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We sought …

Global efforts toward the cure of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

CH Pui, JJ Yang, N Bhakta… - The Lancet Child & …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Improvements in risk-directed treatment and supportive care, together with increased
reliance on both national and international collaborative studies, have made childhood …

Environmental exposure and risk of childhood leukemia: an overview

J Schüz, F Erdmann - Archives of medical research, 2016 - Elsevier
Childhood leukemia is the most common cancer diagnosed in children worldwide. However,
only a few causes have been established so far, mainly some genetic syndromes and high …

Sex ratio among childhood cancers by single year of age

LA Williams, M Richardson, EL Marcotte… - Pediatric blood & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The male excess in childhood cancer incidence is well‐established; however,
the underlying biologic mechanisms remain unknown. Examining the association between …

The prenatal origin of childhood leukemia: potential applications for epidemiology and newborn screening

EL Marcotte, LG Spector… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Childhood leukemias are heterogeneous diseases with widely differing incident rates
worldwide. As circulating tumors, childhood acute leukemias are uniquely accessible, and …