An earlier study by the same team found no link between parents working in the nuclear industry and childhoodcancers such as leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Late in the summer ten kids with advanced neuroblastoma, one of the deadliest childhoodcancers, began undergoing a radical new gene therapy with a breathtaking goal--to fight the disease not by deploying often inadequate chemotherapy and radiation but by jiggering the immune system to attack tumors it otherwise ignores.