May - 2022

How engineers and drug developers are working to change childhood cancer’s deadly calculus

A non-profit organization merges engineering and biology to accelerate drug development for childhood cancers. Read more:...

Young Adult Blood Cancer Survivors Face increased Risk Of Death For Decades After Treatment

Young adults who have survived leukemia have higher mortality rates than people in the general population, even for decades after their ...

FDA Approves Vidaza for Rare Pediatric Blood Cancer

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Vidaza (azacytidine) for the treatment of pediatric patients with newly diagnosed...

New molecular subset of pediatric liver cancer identified

New research from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center characterizes a new molecular type of high-risk...

Frozen testicular tissue still viable after two decades

The results may have important implications for treatment of boys with cancer, for whom chemotherapy may be preceded by harvesting and...

Study identifies potential target for treating childhood blood cancer

Scientists have pinpointed a possible new target for treating patients with the blood cancer juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML),...

RAI Treatment in DTC Survivors Associated With Increased Risk of Other Cancers

Increased risks of several solid tumors found to be associated with radioactive iodine treatment for patients with childhood and ...

AYA cancer survivors at higher risk for death due to second primary cancers

Death due to a second primary cancer occurred nearly twice as often among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors compared with the ...

Immunotherapy for kids: An option for childhood liver cancer?

This rare and aggressive form of childhood liver cancer shares enough similarities with its adult counterpart to make it a good disease...

Biological pathways found that drive genomic changes and bone metastasis in Ewing Sarcoma

In studies using mice grafted with human Ewing sarcoma tissue, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and colleagues ...

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Intensive Treatment May Pose Fertility Risks in Childhood Cancer Survivors

They survived childhood cancer. But the disease has taken a toll on their mental health.

How you can support a parent who has a child with cancer

Developing ‘kinder’ treatments for a devastating childhood cancer

Breakthrough as new drug promises to shield child cancer patients from hearing loss

Study finds higher breast cancer risk after certain forms of childhood cancer treatment

Aggressive Cancer Cells Transformed Into Healthy Cells in Breakthrough

Cardiac RT May Amplify Late Disease Risk in Pediatric Cancer Survivors

Are Cannabis-Based Medicines Safe for Children With Cancer?

Homoharringtonine May be ‘Better Alternative’ to Etoposide In Pediatric AML