Thirty-one percent of adult survivors of childhood cancer reported a lack of concern for future health and 40% reported a lack of concern regarding risk for future cancer, according to study findings. Read more: https://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/pediatric-oncology/news/in-the-journals/%7B407a9676-7a38-453d-a6f3-d32dde6b5c09%7D/childhood-cancer-survivors-show-lack-of-concern-over-future-health

Giving the drug sodium thiosulphate after chemotherapy reduces hearing loss in children treated for liver cancer, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/cru-ndh061818.php

A wireless device was comparable to cardiac MRI in accuracy when detecting heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors who were treated with anthracycline chemotherapy, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research. Read more: https://www.clinical-innovation.com/topics/clinical-practice/wireless-device-could-detect-heart-dysfunction-childhood-cancer-survivors

Doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital are the first to use immunotherapy to fight brain cancer. It is the most common and deadliest form of childhood cancer. Read more: http://komonews.com/news/healthworks/seattle-childrens-launches-first-trial-to-cure-brain-cancer-with-childs-immune-system

The Friels will spend Father’s Day like any family with young kids might. They’ll paint pictures, play with toys, read books. There’ll be tears but there’ll also be laughter. The big difference is they’ll be at Sick Kids Hospital, which little Harper has called home since November when she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/06/15/when-home-is-a-hospital-room-a-daughters-fight-a-fathers-love.html

Why is it so hard to develop drugs for children with cancer? And what can be done about it? Those questions are central to a new study published in JAMA Oncology that explores new business models for funding drug development to treat pediatric cancers. Read more: https://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/pediatric-cancer-trials-is-there-a-solution-0001

A new study reveals that pediatric neuroblastoma patients are at elevated risk for long-term psychological impairment. In addition, those who experience such impairment as they get older tend to require special education services and to not go on to college. Read more: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-children-neuroblastoma-elevated-long-term-psychological.html

Vigorous exercise for adult survivors of childhood cancer was associated with reductions in risk of death. Read more: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/040618/exercise-linked-to-lower-death-risk-for-adult-survivors-of-childhood-c.html

Cancer cells in children tend to develop by following four main trajectories - and two of them are linked to relapse of the disease, research led by Lund University in Sweden shows. The four strategies can occur simultaneously in a single tumour, according to the study that is now published in Nature Genetics. Read more: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/lu-cct060418.php

Preliminary results from a study of childhood cancer survivors show that they are more likely to experience sleep problems and daytime sleepiness as adults, and those who report poor sleep have a greater likelihood of persistent or worsened emotional distress. Read more: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/aaos-ccs060318.php

Children suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer of the muscle tissue, may have better chances for a cure if they have extended chemotherapy, a new study finds. Read more: https://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2018-06-03/extended-chemo-extends-life-for-children-with-rare-cancer