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Hodgkin Lymphoma

<p>Lymphomas, both non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphoma, are the third most common cancer in children. Hodgkin lymphoma can occur at any time during life, but is found more often in adolescents than younger children.</p>

Two school-age girls wearing holiday lights and winter clothes, smiling and holding up peace signs

Brighten up the season

This year, many children will spend the holidays in the hospital. Brighten the season for them and their families by creating a virtual toy drive—a fun and easy way to raise funds to buy gifts for kids in CHOP this holiday season.

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Highlight Role of Alternative Splicing in Chemotherapy Resistance

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have elucidated the significant role that alternative splicing – a process whereby a single gene produces multiple proteins by rearranging its messenger RNA segments in different combinations – plays in resistance to chemotherapy in relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). The study published today in the journal Cancer Research.

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