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Rare childhood cancers—an increasing entity requiring the need for global consensus and collaborationRare childhood cancers have not benefited to the same extent from the gains that have been made for their frequently occurring counterparts.
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Fetal growth and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Findings from the childhood leukemia international consortiumThe evidence that accelerated fetal growth is associated with a modest increased risk of childhood ALL is strong and consistent with known biological...
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Parental occupational exposure to engine exhausts and childhood brain tumorsIncreased risks were observed for maternal exposure to diesel exhaust any time before the child's birth and paternal exposure around the time of the child's...
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Parental occupational pesticide exposure and the risk of childhood leukemia in the offspring: Findings from the childhood leukemia international consortiumMaternal occupational pesticide exposure during pregnancy and/or paternal occupational pesticide exposure around conception have been suggested to increase...
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Deregulated expression of connective tissue growth factor is linked to poor outcome in human cancerConnective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) has long been associated with human cancers. The role it plays in these neoplasms is diverse and tumour specific.
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Professor Nick GottardoHead of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology and Haematology, Perth Children’s Hospital; Co-head, Brain Tumour Research Program, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Simultaneous Targeting of DNA Replication and Homologous Recombination in Glioblastoma with a Polyether IonophoreOur findings highlight the potential of salinomycin to induce DNA lesions and inhibit homologous recombination to greatly enhance the effect of radiotherapy
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Primary central nervous system lymphoma: Initial features, outcome, and late effects in 75 children and adolescentsChildren with Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma and no immunodeficiency have a good outcome
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Parental smoking, maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the risk of neuroblastoma in children. A pooled analysis of the ESCALE and ESTELLE French studiesOur findings provide some evidence of an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and Neuroblastoma
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Optimized peripheral blood progenitor cell mobilization for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation in children with high-risk and refractory malignanciesOur approach to hematopoietic progenitor cells mobilization resulted in highly effective HPC harvest in children and adolescents with high-risk cancers