by ljs5936 | Jul 18, 2022 | Cancer Stem Cells, Pediatric Cancer
By Lilly Su, MD Candidate, Class of 2023, Penn State College of Medicine. This article is a continuation of the discussion of pediatric brain and spinal cord cancers. Please click here to read our previous article on astrocytoma. Brain Stem Gliomas Brain stem gliomas...
by ljs5936 | Jul 17, 2022 | Cancer Stem Cells, Pediatric Cancer
By Lilly Su, MD Candidate, Class of 2023, Penn State College of Medicine Brain tumors Cancer is a diagnosis that nobody wants to hear come out of their physician’s mouth, even more so, out of the mouth of their child’s pediatrician. In an ideal world, we would never...
by Farrah Alkhaleel | Apr 19, 2022 | Cancer Stem Cells, Pediatric Cancer
by Farrah A. Alkhaleel Wilms tumor, also known as nephroblastoma, is the most common type of kidney malignancy in children with an incidence of approximately 1 in 10,000 live births [1,2]. Each year in the United States, there are approximately 500 new cases diagnosed...
by iae5008 | Apr 16, 2022 | Cancer Stem Cells, Pediatric Cancer
April 16, 2022, by Neil Sheth It is estimated that around 10,470 children in the United States under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer in 2022. and the most commonly diagnosed include leukemias (28%), the brain cancers (27%), lymphomas (12%), and bone...