Three Cycles of Chemo Noninferior to Six for Rare Childhood Eye Cancer
A shorter regimen of three cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy was noninferior to a standard six-cycle regimen among patients with...
Oct 23, 2024
‘Alarmingly’ few childhood cancer survivors undergo recommended surveillance for late effects
A high percentage of childhood survivors do not undergo guideline-recommended monitoring for late effects, according to results of a...
Oct 22, 2024
Survivors of childhood brain cancer are more likely to be held back in school
Survivors were also 21 times more likely to receive accommodations at school, such as help taking tests, in addition to their worse test...
Oct 21, 2024
Gene therapy for fatal child brain disease may cause blood cancers
A gene therapy that halts a childhood-onset fatal brain disease has been associated with an increased risk of developing blood cancer....
Oct 15, 2024
Children with aggressive blood cancer offered treatment cure hope
Youngsters with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) will be offered CAR T-cell therapy targeted at a specific protein, which has...
Oct 15, 2024
New treatments offer hope for childhood cancer patients
Although the prognosis for most patients with pediatric cancer is good, one of the differences in treatment between childhood and adult...
Oct 15, 2024
More Than Physical: The Impacts of Childhood Cancers on Mental Health
Below, you'll find information on just how common mental health conditions are among childhood cancer patients, why childhood cancer...
Oct 15, 2024
New study finds kinder, more targeted approach to treating aggressive childhood brain cancer
The discovery of an aggressive genetic group will lead to better patient management of this form of tumour, which urgently requires new...
Oct 8, 2024
Fear of Recurrence Is Common Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Adults who survived childhood cancer experience elevated fear that their primary cancer will recur or that a subsequent malignant...
Oct 7, 2024
As patients develop cancer at younger ages, psycho-oncologists are studying the mental health impact
While increased awareness of the growing rates of cancer in younger populations is important, psychologists say the conversation needs to...
Oct 4, 2024

