See also our related blog for the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Initiative.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Muscling in on a Deadly Cancer

This was an article pusblished at the University of Utah News and Public Relations. In a pair of new studies, University of Utah scientists took early but significant steps to fight a particularly deadly childhood muscle cancer by identifying some of the genetic events that cause the disease and then engineering mice that develop the tumors. The genetic events might be targets for new drugs that could be tested on the mice. Click here to read more.

Lee Siegel. Press Release 10/14/2004.

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

GST Polymorphism relating to Childhood Cancer Risk

Phillip Barnette, Rebecca Scholl, Mary Blandford, Linda Ballard, Alexander Tsodikov, Jalene Magee, Susana Williams, Margaret Robertson, Francis Ali-Osman, Richard Lemons, Charles Keller. “High Throughput Detection of Glutathione S-Transferase Polymorphic Alleles in a Pediatric Cancer Population,” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 2004; 13:304-313 [PubMed UID 14973099]

Sunday, February 15, 2004

Notes on the clinical care of Myofibrosarcoma

Charles Keller, Callie Gibbs, Steven Kelly, Jeffrey Haller, Keith White, Cheryl Coffin, Richard Lemons. “Low Grade Myofibrosarcoma of the Head and Neck:  Importance of Early Referral and Surgical Therapy,” Journal of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology 2004; 26:119-120 [PubMed UID 14767203]

Tuesday, June 1, 1999

How small is too small: Growth Guidelines in Bloom Syndrome

Charles Keller, Kelly Keller, Stephen Shew, Sharon E. Plon. “Growth Deficiency and Malnutrition in Bloom Syndrome,” The Journal of Pediatrics 1999; 134:472-479 [PubMed UID 10190923]