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Smart Algorithm finds possible future treatment for Childhood Cancer

Us Integrative discovery of treatments for high-risk neuroblastomaNature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13817-8

Using a computer algorithm, scientists at Uppsala University have identified a promising new treatment for neuroblastoma. This form of cancer in children, which occurs in specialised nerve cells in the sympathetic nervous system, may be life-threatening. In the long term the discovery, described in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Communications, may result in a new form of treatment for children in whom the disease is severe or at an advanced stage.

The new treatment is based on activating a receptor protein, CNR2 (cannabinoid receptor 2), in the nervous system...

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