Simone Cesaro, Director of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Unit at Integrated University Hospital of Verona and Founding Board Member at European Conference on Infections on Leukemia and Stem Cell Transplantations, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“This paper demonstrates that oncological predispostion 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.”
Title: Population-based genomic detection of childhood cancer predisposition using newborn dried blood spots
Authors: Lisa Diller, Sara Cherkerzian, Abigail Cinelli, David Housman, Riaz Gillani, Kayla Hamilton, Jennifer Yeh, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Richard Parad
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