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To Learn More About Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma

For more information from the National Cancer Institute about childhood rhabdomyosarcoma, see the following:

  • Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma Home Page
  • Soft Tissue Sarcomas
  • Drugs Approved for Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Understanding Cancer Series: Targeted Therapies (Advances in Targeted Therapies)
  • Targeted Cancer Therapies

For more childhood cancer information and other general cancer resources from the National Cancer Institute, see the following:

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Despite significant improvements in long-term, disease-free survival in children treated for cancer,[1] cancer remains the second leading disease-related cause of death for children in the United States behind injury, congenital causes, and heart disease.[2] For more than half of children for whom frontline treatment fails, treatment using relapse and disease recurrence clinical trials (phase I and phase II) and unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is common.[3] For children, this...

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  • What You Need to Know About? Cancer
  • Childhood Cancers
  • CureSearch for Children's Cancer
  • Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer
  • Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
  • Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents
  • Care for Children and Adolescents with Cancer
  • Understanding Cancer Series: Cancer
  • Cancer Staging
  • Coping with Cancer: Supportive and Palliative Care
  • Cancer Library
  • Information for Survivors/Caregivers/Advocates

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Last Updated: May 16, 2012
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