CureSearch for Children’s Cancer awarded a $225,000 research grant to John Prensner, a physician-scientist at the University of Michigan, to advance research on atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors. One of the most aggressive and fatal brain cancers affecting infants and toddlers, ATRT has limited treatment options and devastating outcomes, with more than half of cases proving fatal.
Despite steady progress in reducing overall cancer mortality rates, cancer incidence in women is rising, according to the American Cancer Society’s “Cancer Statistics, 2025” report. Incidence rates in women 50-64 years of age have surpassed those in men, and rates in women under 50 are now 82% higher than their male counterparts, up from 51% higher in 2002. In 2021, for the first time, lung cancer incidence was higher in women under 65 than in men.
