ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from the Princess Máxima Center. The Princess Máxima Center is a pediatric oncology research hospital in the Netherlands that integrates fundamental, translational, and clinical research with highly specialized cancer care for children. Its scientists study childhood cancers through genomics, immunology, tumor biology, drug development, and clinical trials, aiming to improve survival while reducing treatment side effects and long-term health consequences.Visit the Princess Máxima Center
Doctors have long relied on an invasive marrow-sampling procedure to check whether a childhood cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma has advanced. A large international study finds a whole-body imaging scan already in use catches it just as reliably, except in one circumstance.