When Camille Wahl was a child, she loved Irish step dance. She translated her love physically, becoming a competitive dancer until she was ten years old. It was then, reports…
The first thing that you should know: osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) is treatable. In fact, when you treat osteosarcoma early enough, it is curable; children can live long,…
In late September 2022, biotech company Oncoheroes Biosciences, Inc. ("Oncoheroes") shared via news release that its product dovitinib, which the company has an exclusive pediatric licensing agreement for from…
Osteosarcoma is genomically complex, which means that – sometimes – it can also be difficult to treat. Treatment and management, however, are crucial to ensuring positive patient outcomes. Doctors and…
Salarius Pharmaceuticals has just announced the addition of a new clinical trial site for their study investigating seclidemstat as a treatment for Ewing sarcoma (relapsed or refractory) as well as…
There are two types of osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer: localized or metastasized. If the cancer is localized, or in one area, the 5-year survival rate sits around 70-75%. However,…
Recently, biopharmaceutical company Oncternal Therapeutics ("Oncternal") announced that it has additional clinical data available from its Phase 1 clinical trial. Through the trial, researchers are analyzing an investigational therapy, TK216,…
As reported in Biospace; You probably know that a purple ribbon is used to commemorate cancer, pink for breast cancer, orange for leukemia. What do you know about childhood cancers…
What do you call fossils that just lie there? Lazy bones! But for the Centrosaurus apertus, its bones are talking to us from beyond the grave, making it less lazy and…
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A recent article in Northwestern's University Health reported that although the survival rate for cancer patients has vastly improved over the past twenty years, the deaths due to metastatic cancer…
Biophosphonates (BPs) are common treatments for osteoporosis and metastatic bone cancer. They help to prevent bone loss. Unfortunately, these drugs can have serious side effects. One of the most severe…
Abi Galatia suffers from stage three osteosarcoma, a very rare and very deadly form of bone cancer. The weird part is, she dreamed that she would get the disease for…
Sean Dixon had his dreams of becoming a cop come true when the Suffolk County Police Headquarters made him a detective for the day, but after two years of battling…
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