Simone Cesaro, Director of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Unit at Integrated University Hospital of Verona, shared on LinkedIn:
“This paper demonstrates that oncological predisposition is responsible of 6.8% of pediatric early-onset solid tumors, so neonatal screening for the pathogenetic germline variants could be part of tumor prevention and early diagnosis programs.”
Donjeta Bali, Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine of Tirana, shared on LinkedIn, by Simone Cesaro, adding:
“We should start thinking about this now as well… thank you for sharing.”
Title: Population-based genomic detection of childhood cancer predisposition using newborn dried blood spots
Authors: Lisa Diller, Riaz Gillani, Sara Cherkerzian, Abigail E. Cinelli, David Housman, Kayla V. Hamilton, Jennifer M. Yeh, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Richard B. Parad
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