{"id":214997,"date":"2025-05-29T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/childhood-kidney-cancer-has-millions-of-genetic-changes-opening-door-to-possible-treatments"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:12:24","slug":"childhood-kidney-cancer-has-millions-of-genetic-changes-opening-door-to-possible-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/childhood-kidney-cancer-has-millions-of-genetic-changes-opening-door-to-possible-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Childhood kidney cancer has millions of genetic changes, opening door to possible treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/childhood-kidney-cancer-has-millions-of-genetic-changes-opening-door-to-possible-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children\u2019s tumors and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>Concentrating on a type of childhood kidney cancer, known as Wilms tumor, an international team genetically sequenced multiple tumors at a resolution that was previously not possible.<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration included researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, Princess M\u00e1xima Center for Pediatric Oncology, the Oncode Institute in the Netherlands, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children\u2019s tumors and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment options. Concentrating on a type of childhood kidney cancer, known as Wilms tumor, an international team genetically sequenced multiple tumors at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}