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NeuroblastomaNew Treatment for Neuroblastoma Is in Early-Stage Trials
American Cancer Society grantee Andras Heczey, MD, is trying to adapt the technique known as CAR T-cell therapy to cure children with neuroblastoma by using natural killer T cells. He's trying the treatment for the first time in children in a phase 1 clinical trial.
Caring for Children with Cancer
The types of cancers that develop in children are often different from the types that develop in adults. Even when kids have a cancer type that adults get too, it is often treated differently.
Adapting CAR T-Cell Therapy to Treat Neuroblastoma
With the success of the new drug, Kymriah, pediatric oncology researchers are trying to adapt CAR T-cell therapy to treat solid tumors, like neuroblastoma.
Another Promising Neuroblastoma Discovery
ACS-funded researcher Edward Chan, MD, identified a previously undiscovered genetic mutation in neuroblastoma, the most common cancer in very young children.