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December 7th 2024
Treatment with bicistronic CD19/CD22 CAR-T cell therapy has shown event-free survival improvements in children with relapsed or refractory B-ALL.
A Dedicated, Energetic Healer and Pediatric Oncology Nurse
July 21st 2019Rachel Steele, B.S.N., RN, OCN, is an extraordinary healer. As one of the only pediatric nurses in an adult-focused cancer hospital and radiation oncology department, Rachel has intangible ways of connecting with families and children that engender instant comfort in such an overwhelming environment.
Pediatric Oncology Nurse Always Thinking of 'Her Kids'
July 15th 2019I am privileged and honored to nominate Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) pediatric oncology nurse Alicia De Pazos, RN, CPHON, for the 2019 CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award. Alicia has been a pediatric oncology nurse for over 32 years. In that time, she has held many different positions — all in the pediatric oncology setting.
The Girls: A Family Remembers Their Two Daughters Lost to Cancer
June 19th 2019What a force they were, those two daughters of ours: that little nine-year-old kid Valerie, gone from bone cancer and the more grown-up 37-year-old Stacy, cut off by breast cancer. When we talk of them, however, it is often with a slight grin.
Expansion Plans at St. Jude Aim to Help Cure Children in the U.S. and Around the World
March 20th 2019A hospital whose mission is to cure children’s catastrophic diseases is not only providing treatment, but also conducting research and making new medicines. Now, in addition to improving its patient-care and research capabilities, it plans to reach into low-income countries to help cure more children with cancer.
Genomics Data Could Lead to New Treatments for Children
March 12th 2019St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is offering cloud-based access to the fully sequenced genomes of 10,000 pediatric patients with cancer, in the hopes that sharing the information will lead to the highest possible number of treatment breakthroughs.
Radiation Treatment May Impair Recent Memory in Pediatric Patients With Brain Tumors
September 24th 2018“Key brain regions that we know are typically involved in autobiographical memory formation and retrieval, especially the hippocampus, are located quite far from the primary tumor bed, and thus far from the site of focal radiation,” Sekeres, who is director of the Sekeres Memory Laboratory at Baylor University, said in an interview with CURE.