Tag: Lisa Diller

Nation & World
DNA testing could save young lives through early intervention

During her Radcliffe fellowship, pediatric oncologist Lisa Diller is studying the implications of genetic testing in newborns, and planning research that focuses on testing babies for gene changes associated with cancers known to strike the very young.

March 26, 2019

5 minutes
Nation & World
Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals

Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population,…

April 6, 2010

5 minutes