TWIPO #39 ~ Declining Childhood Cancer Mortality & CAR123 T-cells

New York, NY -- In the most recent episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology (TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, co-hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Dr. Andy Kolb (A.I. Dupont) and Dr. Lionel Chow (Cincinatti Children's) discuss two recent papers on the declining mortality rate in childhood and adolescent cancers and a pre-clinical study using CAR123 T-cells.

Saar Gill, Sarah K. Tasian, Marco Ruella, Olga Shestova, Yong Li, David L. Porter, Martin Carroll, Gwenn Danet-Desnoyers, John Scholler, Stephan A. Grupp, Carl H. June, and Michael Kalos. Preclinical targeting of human acute myeloid leukemia and myeloablation using chimeric antigen receptor–modified T cells. Blood. 2014, 10, April. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24596416