A grade PMID 42321916
View analysis →Finding therapies hidden in 39,040 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
This national AIEOP survey reports heterogeneous institutional use of isavuconazole in pediatric hematology-oncology, principally for secondary prophylaxis and salvage treatment, with substantial variation in therapeutic drug monitoring.
The survey provides evidence of variable pediatric onco-hematology practice but no comparative efficacy or safety outcomes; it supports the inference that prospective studies and standardized dosing, indication, interaction-management, and monitoring protocols could improve the consistency—and potentially the safety and effectiveness—of isavuconazole use.
Using interviews with 47 children receiving cancer treatment, 45 parents, and 22 healthcare professionals across six countries, the study developed a provisional 50-item EORTC health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children aged 8–14 years.
The evidence supports the content-development stage of an age-appropriate patient-reported outcome measure; it is reasonable but not yet demonstrated to hypothesize that, after pilot testing and validation, the measure could identify symptoms and psychosocial concerns that inform supportive care, reduce morbidity, or improve treatment monitoring.
In 53 maternal caregivers of young adult childhood brain-tumor survivors living at home, cognitive late effects were associated with lower transition readiness, while caregiver condition-management ability showed a limited and subscale-specific relationship among families with lower social vulnerability.
The record provides observational evidence linking cognitive late effects with transition-readiness difficulties; it suggests—but does not test—that cognitive rehabilitation and caregiver-focused condition-management support tailored to social vulnerability could improve selected transition skills.
This paper reports a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating psychosocial interventions intended to reduce pain and pain-related distress in infants, children, and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment.
The record establishes that randomized evidence was synthesized, but provides no efficacy results; if the reviewed interventions produced meaningful reductions in pain or distress, they could offer nonpharmacologic supportive care alongside cancer treatment.
Bioinformatic analysis of GSE166173 identified NFE2L2, HSPB1, and JUN as ferroptosis-associated candidate biomarkers in retinoblastoma, linked them computationally to immune infiltration and drug sensitivity, and confirmed their downregulation in Y79 cells relative to RPE cells by RT-qPCR.
The evidence supports differential expression of three ferroptosis-related genes and computationally predicted associations with immune context and drug sensitivity; it remains an untested hypothesis that targeting these pathways—or using AUY922, AG.014699, or AMG.706—could provide therapeutic benefit in retinoblastoma.
This systematic review of five studies and an illustrative pediatric case describes the long-term cerebrovascular, neurodevelopmental, airway, and cutaneous morbidity of PHACE syndrome and argues for lifelong multidisciplinary and neuroradiological follow-up.
The record supports surveillance and multidisciplinary management as clinically relevant strategies; it only suggests, rather than demonstrates, that prolonged neuroradiological monitoring could enable earlier detection and treatment of evolving cerebrovascular complications.
This single-center retrospective study of 15 children with quadrigeminal arachnoid cysts reports long-term surgical outcomes stratified by Cinalli subtype, with 11 patients achieving shunt independence and no late reoperations.
The reported outcomes support endoscopic third ventriculostomy combined with cyst fenestration as a potential first-line approach for selected children, particularly older patients, but the inference that age, prior shunting, or Cinalli subtype should guide treatment requires validation in larger comparative cohorts.
This review summarizes targeted therapies for chronic spontaneous urticaria, highlighting adult trial programs, pediatric approval of dupilumab supported partly by extrapolation, and major gaps in age-specific efficacy and long-term safety evidence.
The supplied evidence supports targeting mast-cell and inflammatory signaling in chronic spontaneous urticaria; any application to pediatric cancer treatment or supportive oncology is purely inferential and is not evaluated in this record.
In a retrospective single-center cohort of 134 children with Wilms tumor, females had more bilateral disease, persistent and intraoperative caval thrombus, stage III disease, and events with lower event-free survival, but no significant difference in overall survival or mortality.
The evidence identifies sex as a possible prognostic or management-relevant variable; it remains an untested inference that incorporating sex into surveillance, thrombus assessment, or risk stratification would improve outcomes.
This review describes recurrent SRF fusions across predominantly pediatric myoid soft tissue tumors, their shared domain architecture and transcriptional effects, and their potential diagnostic and clinical significance.
The reported constitutive SRF activation and dysregulation of myogenic, cytoskeletal, and sometimes inflammatory programs suggest—in inference rather than demonstrated therapeutic evidence—that fusion-driven transcriptional dependencies could eventually support molecular classification or targeted-treatment research.
This report describes a 12-year-old with stage IA mycosis fungoides and synchronous stage IVB Hodgkin lymphoma who achieved complete remission after sequential multiagent chemotherapy, pembrolizumab, and radiotherapy.
The observed remission establishes feasibility of the reported combined treatment sequence in one patient; it only suggests, rather than demonstrates, that checkpoint inhibition or this adapted regimen could benefit similar pediatric dual-lymphoma cases because the effects of individual components cannot be separated.
Analysis of nationally representative 2019 and 2022 NHIS data found that lifetime HPV vaccination coverage among U.S. adults aged 27–45 increased from 15.1% to 20.7%, while initiation during ages 27–45 remained only 1.43% and varied across sociodemographic and healthcare-access groups.
The evidence identifies low adult HPV-vaccine initiation and access-related disparities; it supports the inference that targeted vaccination-access interventions could increase coverage and potentially prevent some future HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers, but the study did not test an intervention or measure cancer incidence reduction.