Assorted News from the Last Week:
This edition of the CAC2 blog post provides a compassionate guide to embracing bereaved families during the holidays.
Exploring the survival tactics of childhood cancers.
Is stomach cancer on the rise in young adults?
Targeted drug could benefit young patients with invasive sarcoma.
The NCCR database for researchers has grown. Researchers can produce trustworthy statistics with high-quality registry data for more than 1.6 million reported cases using SEER*Stat, NCI’s premiere analytic software for studying the impact of cancer on a population.
IAEA and St Jude begin development of radiotherapy curricula.
Upcoming Webinars, Online Opportunities, and Meetings:
Christmas at Children’s National Toy Drive sponsored by Liv’s Creative Legacy, November 7 through December 4. Click here for more information.
AACR to Release Inaugural AACR Pediatric Cancer Progress Report 2025 on December 4. Click here for more information and to register.
Register now for an NCI webinar on Liquid Biopsy for Retinoblastoma on December 9, at 1:00 ET.
Cancer Advocacy Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 12PM EST. Click here to register.
Past Recordings:
CAC2 member Phil Renna (Christina Renna Foundation) hosts an episode of At the Lab with Chris Vakoc, microbiologist and pediatric cancer researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: “Pediatric cancers: Rare, relentless, and real”
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