MARIS NEWS

Cancer-treatment gamble starts to pay off

By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer

Every day last summer, researchers John Maris and Yael Mosse waited eagerly for e-mail from a 24-year-old woman named Anna O'Connor - or her father, who was closely involved in her fight against a rare cancer.

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CHOP researchers get a lead on neuroblastoma

By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer

John Maris has spent more than 20 years trying to understand why some children get an often-fatal cancer called neuroblastoma. There was no obvious environmental factor, and a genetic variation seemed to be involved. But how to find it?

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