DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 4-year-old niece recently was diagnosed with neuroblastoma after not feeling well for a few weeks. Her parents noticed her belly was swollen, so they took her to the doctor after ...

Neuroblastoma Symptoms in Children: When young children have a swollen belly or an unusual belly that seems bigger than normal, they always tell them that it was gases or that they were constipated or ...

Childhood neuroblastoma is often a fatal disease. Despite initial treatment success, most patients relapse or develop resistance to the current therapies. A new approach using a combination of two ...

A detailed 'atlas' of neuroblastoma tumors points to a new target for immunotherapy. Scientists from the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in the Netherlands mapped this childhood tumor at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Determining risk classifications of children with neuroblastoma is “paramount” to optimizing their care, the ...

New guidelines provide a framework for pediatric neuroblastoma treatment — as well as conversations families should have with their oncology teams. Newly crafted guidelines could help guide the ...

Children with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma which hasn't responded to initial treatment or that has relapsed may benefit from adding antibody treatment to usual chemotherapy, according to ...

A new approach to treating neuroblastoma that could enable therapy with fewer side-effects has been heralded as "promising" by experts. Researchers from the University of Cambridge said their ...

Black and Hispanic children with high-risk neuroblastoma experience worse survival outcomes than their white peers, even when treated in frontline clinical trials, according to a study led by a UT ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Neuroblastoma is one of the deadliest childhood cancers. It typically develops in the abdomen, kidneys, adrenal glands and along the spinal cord. It’s rare, with only 800 cases ...

Neuroblastoma mainly affects toddlers and young children—in the EU region there are 1,500 new cases per year. Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor of the peripheral nervous system and around 50% of ...

A neuroblastoma patient treated with CAR T-cell therapy as a child achieved a complete response and remains in remission more than 18 years later. Researchers suggest this is the longest reported ...