Gene findings revealing reasons for neuroblastoma risk
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 13:42
in Health & Medicine
Two new studies from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia advance the search for genetic events that result in neuroblastoma, a puzzling, often-deadly type of childhood cancer. Originating in the peripheral nervous system, neuroblastoma is the most common solid cancer of early childhood and causes 15 percent of all childhood cancer deaths.