Sarcoma News

Ewing sarcoma is a bone tumor of unknown cellular origin that affects children and young adults.

This year, the message for World Cancer Day, 4th February, is "Cancer can be prevented too", with experts suggesting that 40 per cent of the 12.4 million cancers diagnosed and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide could be prevented if we applied what we know about avoiding infections and changing lifestyles.

Carly Davis, right, is joined by friends Felicia Chandler, left, and Destiny Juarez during lunch Friday at Foster High School in Richmond.

ArQule, Inc. announced the initiation of a Phase 2, single agent trial with ARQ 197 in germ cell tumors , including testicular and non-central nervous system tumors, and a Phase 1/2 clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety of ARQ 197 administered in combination with irinotecan and cetuximab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who ...

McConnellsburg Middle School students are helping to fight cancer for one of their own.

MANCHESTER, England & NEW YORK-- --Pfizer Inc. and DxS today announced that they have entered into an agreement to develop a companion diagnostic test kit for PF-04948568 , an immunotherapy vaccine in development for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme .

ISLAMABAD: There are 10 million new patients of cancer every year all over the world, and this number is increasing day by day, said Dr Mohammad Ali Afridi, consultant radiation oncologist at Shifa International Hospital , while addressing a seminar at SIH on World Cancer Day.

When faced with the decision of losing her leg or living with a rare form of cancer, Sian Clark thought her decision against amputation was far from brave.

Kate McGarrigle's children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright with their partners, follow the casket of their mother into at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal Monday, February 1, 2010.

Chris Wilhelm hasn't exactly had it easy during his young life. He spent a lot of his youth in foster care and residential treatment facilities, and a total of about three years in the county's juvenile detention center.

Carrie Elmore spent the evening of Dec. 18 hanging out with girlfriends, getting her nails painted, decorating cupcakes and pillowcases, eating popcorn and watching a movie.

Research and Markets: Viral Oncology: Basic Science and Clinical Applications - Comprehensive Look at the Latest Research Findings and Clinical Applications of Oncogenic Viruses Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Viral Oncology: Basic Science and Clinical Applications" to their offering.

Correspondence: Dr AE Horvai, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero Drive B220, San Francisco, CA 94115-1656, USA.

Children with cancer are now being accepted for treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma, where a wide range of tumors are treated with proton therapy , an alternative to X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.

Researchers have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to identify the genetic changes that give rise to some of the world's most challenging childhood cancers.

Two fundraisers this weekend -- one in Port Angeles and another in Sequim -- will raise money to help a longtime Port Angeles family struggling with cancer.

Taking the family history of 100 healthy women, at least one affected first-degree relative can be found in up to 15 of them.

Toxicity of high-dose chemotherapy with etoposide, thiotepa and CY in treating poor-prognosis Ewing's sarcoma family tumors: the experience of the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital 2Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and BMT, Perugia, Italy Correspondence: Dr I Ilari, Pediatric Oncology Unit, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù ...

The team has joined forces to decode the genomes of more than 600 childhood cancer patients who have contributed tumor samples for this historic effort.

One local girl used today's school holiday to stage her own musical with an important message.