OPACC and Sick Kids Co-Facilitated Parent Intervention Group - Spring 2012
A new Spring session of our Co-Facilitated Parent Intervention Group for parents of children with cancer at Sick Kids is starting soon!...
Mar 2, 2012
Children’s cancer drug shortage should ease, FDA says, but doctors, parents worry it’ll recur
TRENTON, N.J. — A severe shortage of a childhood cancer drug should ease before hospitals run out of it in a couple weeks, a top federal...
Feb 16, 2012
Supply of a Cancer Drug May Run Out Within Weeks
A crucial medicine to treat childhood leukemia is in such short supply that hospitals across the country may exhaust their stores within...
Feb 13, 2012
Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center Experts Recommend Genetic Counseling for Pediatric Sar
Newswise — BOSTON — Genetic specialists at Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) are recommending that children being...
Feb 8, 2012
New antibody treatment puts toddler’s rare cancer in remission
A 2-year-old girl from the U.K., who was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer, is now in remission after being treated with a new...
Feb 8, 2012
Mom's Night Out for moms of children with paediatric brain tumours
Friday, February 24, 2012 • 7pm -10pm in Brampton (Wellspring Chinguacousy, 5 Inspiration Way) You are invited to a quiet evening of...
Feb 3, 2012
Inherited Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia are More Common in Hispanic Patients
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Results from a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology...
Feb 1, 2012
Cancer Sequencing Initiative Discovers Mutations Tied to Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer...
Jan 30, 2012
Oshawa seminar helps kids with cancer go back to school
OSHAWA -- Getting a child with cancer back into the swing of things is not easy, especially at school. But a local cancer support centre...
Jan 27, 2012
Cancer One, War Less Than One
President Nixon declared a war on cancer on Dec. 23, 1971. The war on cancer is arguably being lost on a daily basis. My daughter Alexis...
Jan 23, 2012