Sep 24, 2024
Healing Without Harm: Reducing Chemo Toxicities
“One thing we can do to really help patients with cancer is to make chemotherapy safer without reducing its effectiveness. I believe this...
May 21, 2024
Unraveling the roles of non-coding DNA explains childhood cancer’s resistance to chemotherapy
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered non-coding genetic variants contributing to chemotherapy resistance...
Apr 15, 2024
Chemotherapy cured my cancer. Years later it likely gave me heart disease.
The link is not uncommon: ‘Cardiotoxicity’ is a major side effect of anticancer treatments. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wel...
Oct 19, 2023
Second Dose of Palonosetron Reduces CINV in Pediatric Cancer Patients
An additional dose of palonosetron can help prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in children with cancer who are...
Sep 13, 2023
Breakthrough as new drug promises to shield child cancer patients from hearing loss
A new study, which is to be presented to the RNID Hearing Therapeutics Summit, found that a drug called Pedmark, also known as ...
Sep 12, 2023
Study finds higher breast cancer risk after certain forms of childhood cancer treatment
In a new study, scientists from the Princess Máxima Center investigated the risk of breast cancer in women who were treated for childhood...
Nov 30, 2022
Common chemotherapy drug could carry toxic inheritance for future generations of cancer survivors
A common chemotherapy drug could carry a toxic inheritance for children and grandchildren of adolescent cancer survivors, Washington ...
Oct 19, 2022
Research aims to spare children from painful adverse effects of chemotherapy
Starobova, whose research focuses on chemotherapy-induced adverse effects, received a fellowship grant from Children’s Hospital...
Aug 3, 2021
Heated chemotherapy can help some children with cancer
Tumors that have spread to the lining of the abdomen are tough to treat. But a select number of cancer teams across the country have...
Oct 5, 2020
Childhood chemo alters heart's caretaker cells, study finds
Cancer chemotherapy changes the function of cells that repair heart injury, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center...