Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

**Semantic type:** Professional or Occupational Group

**Definition:** An initiative to find existing cancer drugs that might be applicable to childhood cancers. The group is analyzing the genomic data of children with cancer in the context of large data sets of both pediatric and adult cancers. This should identify situations where an available drug is predicted to work for a given patient's tumor based on a similar genetic basis for the cancer.

**Synonyms:** - Treehouse - Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at UC Santa Cruz