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melanoma, 15 immunotherapy, 37, 49–50
neuroblastomas, 18 protocol types, 37
RMS, 18 radiation, 44–45
side effects, 40–43, 45
targeted therapy, 37, 47–49 specialists part of team, 37
T cells stem cell transplants, 41,
ALL and, 49–50 43–44
function of, 11 success rates, 38
non-Hodgkin lymphoma and, surgery, 46–47
20 targeted therapy, 47–49
Teenage Cancer Trust (Britain), See also chemotherapy
58 twins, cancer in identical, 26
teenagers, increase in cancer
diagnosed in, 7 University of Michigan’s C.S.
treatments Mott Children’s Hospital, 58
for ALL US Department of Health and
historical, 4–5 Human Services, 23–24
immunotherapy, 49–50
standard, 39–40 Washington University
stem cell transplants, Pediatric Cancer Genome
43–44 Project, 35
targeted therapy, 47, 48 white blood cells
for brain and spinal cord (lymphocytes), 11
tumors, 45 Wilms tumors, 19, 34
combination of, 45
definition of successful, 36 Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma
enduring, 60–62 Fund, 54

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