The BC Children's Hospital Research Institute is located on the BC Children's Hospital campus in Vancouver, BC. With more than 350,000 square feet devoted to research, our institute is the largest of its kind in Western Canada.
New study shows the potential of new treatment strategies for most common childhood cancer
Researchers made a key discovery about how childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) evolves and responds to targeted therapies suggesting that clinicians can start looking for precision treatments for a child’s cancer immediately after diagnosis, rather than waiting until the cancer has come back.