The Zero Childhood Cancer Program’s multi-platform sequencing approach identified molecular alterations in 94% of a cohort of 247 pediatric patients with high-risk cancers, which has enabled more-precise diagnoses and alternative therapeutic recommendations.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Therapy concepts in the context of precision medicine for pediatric malignancies—children are not adults
memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology Open Access 03 September 2021
Access options
Subscribe to Nature+
Get immediate online access to Nature and 55 other Nature journal
$29.99
monthly
Subscribe to Journal
Get full journal access for 1 year
$79.00
only $6.58 per issue
All prices are NET prices.
VAT will be added later in the checkout.
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.
Buy article
Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube.
$32.00
All prices are NET prices.

References
Steliarova-Foucher, E. et al. Lancet Oncol. 18, 719–731 (2017).
Cunningham, R. M., Walton, M. A. & Carter, P. M. N. Engl. J. Med. 379, 2468–2475 (2018).
Wong, M. Nat. Med. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1072-4 (2020).
Capper, D. et al. Nature 555, 469–474 (2018).
Vogelstein, B. et al. Science 339, 1546–1558 (2013).
Gröbner, S. N. et al. Nature 555, 321–327 (2018).
Schwartzentruber, J. et al. Nature 482, 226–231 (2012).
Sturm, D. et al. Cell 164, 1060–1072 (2016).
Sturm, D. et al. Cancer Cell 22, 425–437 (2012).
Zhang, J. et al. N. Engl. J. Med. 373, 2336–2346 (2015).
DuBois, S. G., Corson, L. B., Stegmaier, K. & Janeway, K. A. Science 363, 1175–1181 (2019).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Hadjadj, D., Deshmukh, S. & Jabado, N. Entering the era of precision medicine in pediatric oncology. Nat Med 26, 1684–1685 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1119-6
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1119-6
This article is cited by
-
Therapy concepts in the context of precision medicine for pediatric malignancies—children are not adults
memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology (2021)