CAC2 Childhood Cancer Community News Digest (January 13-19)
Assorted News from the Last Week: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved FoundationOne®CDx as a companion diagnostic for Supporting Organization Member Day One Biopharmaceuticals’ OJEMDA, a type II RAF inhibitor, for the treatment of patients six months of age and older with relapsed or refractory pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG) harboring a BRAF fusion or rearrangement. Pediatric patients with cancer who have obesity at the time of diagnosis may face an elevated risk of mortality. About 30% of adolescents and young adults with cancer who wanted to die at home did not do so. Cancer burden is shifting from [...] Read more