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        New imaging equipment to boost children's cancer research

        A cutting edge cancer imaging facility will help specialist children's cancer researchers at Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. ...

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        Experts Pledge Global Assault on Kids’ Cancer

        A global plan to tackle one of the most aggressive types of childhood brain tumours will be developed as a result of a meeting of international experts in WA. ...

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        Researchers narrow down field of new treatments for most common childhood brain cancer

        Cancer researchers have narrowed-down the field of immunotherapy drugs which could be used to tackle a form of childhood brain cancer. ...

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        Replication of rare aggressive brain cancer could pave the way for better treatments

        In an Australian-first, Telethon Kids Institute researchers have developed a new tool that could improve outcomes for children with a highly aggressive type of brain cancer. ...

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        'Natural killers' potential new cancer weapon

        The Cancer Immunology team at Telethon Kids is investigating how the body's 'natural killer' cells can be harnessed to fight cancer – whilst also protecting kids from nasty chemotherapy side effects. ...

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        NHMRC funding boost to child health research

        Telethon Kids researchers will use nearly $8.5 million awarded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to tackle health issues including respiratory disease, brain cancer, vaccination and Aboriginal health. ...

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        Telethon Kids researchers awarded Raine Medical Research Foundation funding

        Congratulations to three Telethon Kids Institute researchers, who have been awarded funding from the Raine Medical Research Foundation. ...

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        Tretinoin improves the anti-cancer response to cyclophosphamide, in a model-selective manner

        Chemotherapy is included in treatment regimens for many solid cancers, but when administered as a single agent it is rarely curative. The addition of immune checkpoint therapy to standard chemotherapy regimens has improved response rates and increased survival in some cancers. However, most patients do not respond to treatment and immune checkpoint therapy can cause severe side effects. Therefore, there is a need for alternative immunomodulatory drugs that enhance chemotherapy. ...

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        Childhood and parental diagnostic radiological procedures and risk of childhood brain tumors

        We found no evidence of positive associations between risk of childhood brain tumours overall and childhood or parental pre-pregnancy radiological procedures. ...

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        The Childhood Leukemia International Consortium

        The Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) was established in 2007 to promote investigations of rarer exposures, gene-environment interactions... ...

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