Does a Childhood Cancer Diagnosis Negatively Affect Marriage? Study Indicates the Answer is No
The diagnosis of cancer in a child can be devastating to parents and other loved ones, but in a recent study from Denmark, a childhood...
May 29, 2020
Some childhood cancer survivors at higher risk for pain as adults
Certain long-term childhood cancer survivors appeared more likely than their siblings who never had cancer to experience pain as adults,...
May 29, 2020
Financial Burden of Childhood Cancer Treatment on Parents
In addition to the emotional burden of childhood cancer, affected families often face significant financial difficulty due to a range of...
May 29, 2020
Children with cancer are not at a higher risk for COVID-19 infection or morbidity, study finds
Researchers from MSK Kids at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) found that children with cancer are not at a higher risk of...
May 14, 2020
Consuming Antioxidants Through Dietary Intake Beneficial for Patients with Childhood ALL
In a study of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers found that the...
May 12, 2020
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain
The majority of patients who overcome cancer experience the condition, which is marked by mental fogginess, slowed thinking, memory...
May 6, 2020
New targets for childhood brain tumors identified
A research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that the growth of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) brain...
May 4, 2020
Study calls for national vaccination guidelines for pediatric cancer patients following chemotherapy
Pediatric cancer patients should be revaccinated after receiving chemotherapy or face a higher risk of pneumococcal disease and...
May 1, 2020
New advances toward safely targeting immune cells to pediatric brain tumors
Stanford scientists have taken important steps toward figuring out how to use immune therapy for a group of severe pediatric brain tumors...
May 1, 2020