A grade PMID 42321916
View analysis →Finding therapies hidden in 39,000 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 →B grade PMID 42748428
View analysis →A grade PMID 41756844
View analysis →A grade PMID 42765973
View analysis →A grade PMID 42362103
View analysis →A grade PMID 42101908
View analysis →Database feed
All ranked pediatric cancer papers
The study reports that ALK promotes neuroblastoma glycolysis and pro-tumor M2 macrophage polarization through a USP7–SOX9–MFAP2 cascade, while lorlatinib suppresses these effects in experimental systems and neuroblastoma mouse models.
The supplied evidence supports experimental inhibition of ALK with lorlatinib as a way to reduce lactate-associated macrophage polarization and tumor progression; it remains an inference that targeting ALK or downstream USP7, SOX9, or MFAP2 would improve outcomes in children with high-risk neuroblastoma.
In prepubertal mice, cytarabine produced testicular cellular, endocrine, sperm, transcriptomic, and metabolic abnormalities—including spermatogonial depletion associated with ferroptosis and replication arrest—and unexposed F1 offspring showed persistent molecular changes.
The record provides preclinical evidence that cytarabine disrupts spermatogonia and the supporting testicular niche; it supports the inference, not yet a demonstrated therapy, that modulating ferroptosis, redox balance, Sertoli-cell stress, Leydig-cell inflammation, or niche signaling might preserve fertility during pediatric chemotherapy.
In this 25-year single-center retrospective study, preoperative spinal drop metastases were found in 8 of 75 evaluable ependymoma patients, with higher detection using whole-neuroaxis MRI and associations with tumor location and myxopapillary histology, but no observed survival difference.
The evidence supports whole-neuroaxis MRI as a potentially more sensitive initial staging approach in ependymoma; it is an inference, not demonstrated here, that earlier detection of dissemination would alter treatment selection or improve clinical outcomes.
In a follow-up prospective cohort of 66 childhood cancer survivors, objective and self-reported smell and taste abnormalities persisted within five years after treatment, with objective taste function modestly associated with HRQoL and particularly frequent taste changes among participants treated for ALL.
The study provides evidence that persistent sensory dysfunction is detectable after childhood cancer treatment; it supports, but does not test, the hypothesis that systematic sensory screening followed by targeted nutritional or supportive-care interventions could improve diet-related outcomes or quality of life.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of adult ALL studies reports a 9% pooled incidence of proven/probable invasive fungal infection and a 5% incidence of invasive aspergillosis, while identifying substantial heterogeneity and limited comparative prophylaxis data.
The evidence establishes a clinically meaningful burden of invasive fungal infection in adults receiving ALL therapy; it supports, but does not test, the hypothesis that risk-adapted antifungal prophylaxis during higher-risk treatment phases could improve outcomes, and applicability to pediatric ALL remains unknown because pediatric cohorts were explicitly excluded.
In a retrospective cohort of 344 female patients aged 21 years or younger, the study derived a growth-rate threshold of >22.5% over 3 months that distinguished hypercellular from non-hypercellular breast masses smaller than 5 cm.
The reported evidence supports growth rate as a risk-stratification marker for small adolescent breast masses; if prospectively validated, the threshold could help select lesions for biopsy or excision while allowing lower-risk lesions to remain under surveillance, but reduced unnecessary intervention and improved malignancy detection were not demonstrated here.
This narrative review synthesizes evidence that phase-dependent immune–vascular interactions contribute to infantile hemangioma biology and discusses immunomodulatory, metabolic, delivery, and biomarker-guided treatment concepts.
The reviewed evidence supports immune–vascular crosstalk as a plausible contributor to infantile hemangioma persistence and treatment response; it remains an inference, requiring prospective validation, that reprogramming macrophage or metabolic states, targeting immune pathways, or using lesion-confined delivery would improve outcomes in refractory disease.
This retrospective three-patient series reports generally tolerated stereotactic radiosurgery for localized recurrent C19MC-altered ETMR, with local control or prolonged stability in some patients but subsequent disseminated progression and death in one patient.
The reported cases provide preliminary evidence that SRS can control selected localized ETMR recurrences without acute neurotoxicity; it is an inference—not established by this uncontrolled series—that incorporating focal SRS into multimodal salvage therapy could reduce reliance on large-field re-irradiation and its neurocognitive burden.
This review summarizes mechanisms, surgically remediable etiologies, operative approaches, outcomes associated with earlier versus delayed intervention, referral disparities, and emerging imaging tools in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy.
The reviewed evidence associates earlier surgical evaluation and intervention in appropriately selected children with better seizure and neurodevelopmental outcomes; it is reasonable—but not demonstrated by new comparative data in this record—to hypothesize that accelerated referral pathways and improved lesion detection could preserve function, including in selected children with tumor-associated epilepsy.
This bibliometric and topic-modeling analysis of 1,268 ECP publications maps the field’s shift toward acute GVHD and immunoregulatory research while identifying limited prospective evidence, especially for irAEs and pediatric-specific use.
The record reports contextual evidence suggesting that ECP may have corticosteroid-sparing activity with generally favorable tolerability in GVHD and irAEs; it can therefore be hypothesized, but not concluded from this bibliometric study, that protocol-standardized ECP could reduce steroid exposure in selected pediatric patients while preserving immune control.
In a single-center retrospective cohort of 106 surgically treated craniopharyngioma patients, a combined clinical and habitat-based multimodal MRI radiomics model predicted early postoperative recurrence with AUCs of 0.944 in training and 0.891 in validation.
The reported evidence supports MRI-derived habitat features as recurrence-risk biomarkers; if externally and prospectively validated, the model could potentially guide surveillance intensity or treatment planning, but the record does not show that model-guided care improves outcomes or reduces toxicity.
This case report describes successful pediatric kidney transplantation after nephroblastoma treatment and extensive ilio-caval thrombosis, using donor inferior vena cava as a conduit to the recipient’s retro-hepatic IVC, with normal graft function 32 months after transplantation.
The reported case provides evidence that donor-IVC conduit reconstruction was technically feasible with a favorable intermediate-term outcome in one child; it suggests—but does not establish—that this approach could enable transplantation and limit graft venous hypertension in similarly selected pediatric oncology survivors with otherwise prohibitive venous thrombosis.