A grade PMID 42321916
View analysis →Finding therapies hidden in 38,964 pediatric cancer papers.
Neurocompute scores pediatric oncology literature, surfaces overlooked therapeutic signals, and turns fragmented childhood cancer research into a living discovery terminal.
Ranked Discovery Journal Articles
A grade PMID 42690647
View analysis →A grade PMID 42372741
View analysis →A grade PMID 42216567
View analysis →A grade PMID 41916649
View analysis →A grade PMID 42382416
View analysis →A grade PMID 42150584
View analysis →A grade PMID 41756844
View analysis →A grade PMID 42362103
View analysis →A grade PMID 42101908
View analysis →A grade PMID 42248607
View analysis →A grade PMID 41667193
View analysis →Database feed
All ranked pediatric cancer papers
This systematic review and individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 52 reported cases characterizes distant cutaneous chordoma metastasis, identifies earlier metastasis among patients younger than 40 years, and proposes a morphology- and biomarker-based diagnostic framework.
Evidence: cutaneous metastasis was generally associated with disseminated chordoma, while morphology, nuclear brachyury, and selected SMARCB1/INI1 assessment supported recognition. Inference: earlier and more accurate diagnosis—particularly in young or epithelioid presentations—could prompt staging and treatment reassessment, but the record provides no evidence that this strategy improves therapeutic outcomes.
This protocol describes an ongoing SMART trial in 374 adult survivors of childhood cancer testing adaptive clinician-guided, mobile health, and intensive coaching strategies to reduce sedentary time and improve diet quality over 12 months.
The record establishes that adaptive lifestyle interventions are being tested in survivors at increased cardiovascular risk but provides no efficacy results; if the interventions improve sedentary time and Healthy Eating Index scores, they could plausibly support cardiovascular risk reduction, although effects on cardiovascular events or other clinical outcomes remain untested.
This case report describes sustained engraftment after urgent second cord blood transplantation with a better-matched, higher-cell-dose unit and reduced-intensity conditioning in a 9-year-old boy with relapsed B-ALL and primary graft failure after initial cord blood transplantation.
The reported case provides evidence that a second cord blood transplant can achieve engraftment after primary graft failure in one child; it suggests—but does not establish—that prompt retransplantation using improved HLA compatibility, higher total nucleated and CD34-positive cell doses, and reduced-intensity conditioning may be a viable salvage strategy when no suitable alternative donor is available.
In a single-center retrospective cohort of 20 adults with spindle cell/sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma, longer chemotherapy duration was associated with improved overall survival, while margin, radiotherapy, MYOD1, and ALK findings suggested outcome heterogeneity but remained exploratory.
The evidence suggests—but does not establish—that greater perioperative treatment intensity and complete resection may improve outcomes in adult ssRMS, while MYOD1 mutations or ALK unbalanced translocations may identify higher-risk patients who could benefit from molecularly informed stratification in future studies.
In a controlled study of 36 clinical imaging experts delineating brain tumours on T2-FLAIR MRI, combined eye-tracking, mouse-behaviour, and image-derived features predicted inter-observer contour variability, with a random forest explaining 39% of its variance.
The evidence shows that behavioural and image-derived features can partially estimate a proxy for delineation uncertainty; it is reasonable but unproven to hypothesize that validated uncertainty-aware tools could flag ambiguous tumour boundaries, support radiotherapy planning, and potentially reduce geographic miss or unnecessary normal-tissue irradiation.
In a retrospective study of 4,481 children undergoing orchiopexy at 31 Latin American centers, 81.8% received surgery after the guideline-recommended age of 18 months, with delayed referral and healthcare-access barriers frequently reported among delayed cases.
The study demonstrates a regional timing-of-care gap; it supports the inference that earlier diagnosis, referral, and access interventions could increase timely orchiopexy, but it does not test such interventions or show reductions in infertility, testicular malignancy, or other clinical outcomes.
In 1,075 Nigerian mothers and children grouped by HIV infection or exposure, this baseline cohort analysis found very low HPV awareness and vaccination, limited maternal cervical cancer screening, and demographic and perinatal differences by HIV status.
The reported prevention gaps support the inference that targeted HPV education, vaccination delivery, and cervical screening programs for HIV-affected families could reduce future HPV-associated cancer risk, but this baseline analysis did not test an intervention or demonstrate reduced infection or cancer outcomes.
A multidisciplinary consensus panel reviewed the limited pediatric cryoablation literature and prioritized comparative studies in pulmonary metastases and desmoid tumors, along with research on effects on healthy bone, cartilage, and growth plates.
The panel identifies—but does not establish—the hypothesis that cryoablation could offer local control or quality-of-life benefits in selected pediatric malignancies and aggressive benign diseases, potentially complementing systemic therapy or providing an alternative to surgery; prospective comparative studies are required to test efficacy, complications, and developmental toxicity.
The study integrates public bulk and single-cell neuroblastoma transcriptomic data, computational modeling, and RT-qPCR validation to identify five myeloid cell differentiation-related prognostic genes and an associated survival risk model with tumor-microenvironment and predicted drug-sensitivity differences.
Evidence in the record links the five-gene signature to prognosis, immune and stromal features, and computationally predicted sensitivity to entinostat and sapitinib; it may therefore support risk-adapted treatment selection or target discovery, but prospective prognostic validation and experimental or clinical confirmation of drug response are still required.
In a 51-patient pediatric B-ALL cohort with 11 relapses, high-risk cytogenetics and positive end-of-induction MRD independently predicted relapse, while adverse copy-number alterations showed a nonsignificant trend.
The evidence supports combining diagnostic genomic risk with end-of-induction MRD for relapse stratification; it is an inference, not tested here, that this strategy could guide treatment intensification, alternative therapy, or toxicity-sparing de-escalation and thereby improve outcomes.
In a two-center retrospective cohort of 327 adults with AML receiving intensive induction chemotherapy, enteral nutrition was associated with less weight loss, higher albumin levels, and less severe malnutrition than parenteral nutrition, without a significant overall-survival difference.
The reported association suggests—but does not establish—that prioritizing enteral over parenteral nutrition during intensive AML induction could better preserve nutritional status; prospective controlled studies are needed to determine causality, safety, treatment-tolerance effects, and applicability to pediatric patients.
In 2,358 children enrolled on COG AREN03B2, multidisciplinary real-time central review supported risk assignment for renal tumor trials, with 73.8% of patients with unilateral tumors assigned within the required 14-day window.
The evidence shows that centralized radiology, pathology, and surgical review can provide timely trial risk assignment for most eligible patients; it is reasonable but unproven to infer that improving submission and review bottlenecks could increase appropriate protocol enrollment and treatment selection.