Nutrition is a key ingredient for defense against infectious diseases in kids with cancer
During cancer treatment, children can face hurdles to maintaining healthy eating. Chemotherapy has many side effects, including loss of...
Apr 25, 2025
Auditory Attention Decay Noted Post-Treatment in Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors
Quality of life improvements can be made if clinicians better understand auditory attention decay after cancer treatment in pediatric...
Apr 17, 2025
Cardiometabolic Considerations for Childhood Cancer Survivors Explained
A team of experts, issuing a statement on behalf of the American Heart Association, have detailed cardiometabolic considerations for...
Apr 16, 2025
Sex and Age May Influence Comorbidities in Pediatric ALL
While the overall prevalence of comorbidities at diagnosis in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and...
Apr 15, 2025
FDA Grants Rare Pediatric Designation to Treatment With NEO100 in Brain Cancer
The FDA has granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for NEO100 in the treatment of pediatric-type diffuse high-grade gliomas, a type...
Apr 10, 2025
Trial Shows Targeted Treatment for Childhood Brain Tumor is Safe
A Phase I clinical trial demonstrated that a targeted approach to treating a deadly brain tumor in children called diffuse intrinsic...
Apr 7, 2025
New approach speeds up personalized cancer treatment for young patients
A pan-Canadian team has developed a new way to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patients, by growing their tumors in...
Apr 4, 2025
Motor Deficits in Children Off Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Recent study results indicated that pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were experiencing some motor skill impacts...
Apr 3, 2025
Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?
It may seem unusual to discuss future fertility when a family is reeling from the diagnosis of a child’s cancer. But 85% of children with...
Apr 2, 2025
HRD HSCT Shows Promise Among Pediatric Patients With Hematologic Cancers
Among pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using...
Apr 1, 2025