Sarcoma

From Biology to Bedside: How the Center for Childhood Cancer Research Is Shaping What Comes Next
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Portrait of Alexander Bishop, DPhil, standing in a hospital lobby and smiling, wearing a navy blazer and light blue shirt.

An interview with Alexander Bishop, DPhil, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research, principal investigator and Richard J. Solove Endowed Chair in Cancer Clinical Developmental Therapeutics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the mission of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research (CCCR) is to expand the understanding of childhood cancer pathogenesis and…

Filling a Critical Gap in Relapsed Sarcoma Treatment
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Blood Sample in test tube

A first-in-sarcoma trial at Nationwide Children’s Hospital tests universal-donor NK cells with chemotherapy to address poor survival rates.   The five-year overall survival rate for children and young adults with relapsed bone or soft tissue sarcomas is between 17 and 26%. For Bhuvana A. Setty, MD, pediatric hematologist and oncologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, that reality is not acceptable. …

Transforming the Approach to Cancer Epigenomic Studies
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Two new publications from the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children’s offer a new platform technology and proof of concept that illuminates the role of a known gene fusion driving rhabdomyosarcoma.  Synergy is an important part of scientific endeavors, and people, teams and organizations who can harness the energy of ideas and passion…