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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Find Promising Preclinical Results for High-Risk Neuroblastoma

Sep 4, 2024

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated a promising new approach in the fight against high-risk neuroblastoma, a common and potentially deadly childhood cancer that can occur within the peripheral nervous system. The study, recently published in Nature Communications, found that chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting two markers on neuroblastoma cancer cells simultaneously boosted overall immune response by engaging adaptive and innate immunity in preclinical models.

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