Children first
Nature Medicine 23, 1005 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nm.4404
Drugs administered to children with cancer were typically developed under the assumption that childhood cancers are similar to their tissue-matched adult counterparts. Focusing on identifying and targeting alterations present specifically in childhood tumors will accelerate the development of tailored therapies and improve the prognosis of children with cancer.
Source: Nature Medicine - Category: General Medicine Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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