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Routine Pain Screenings Important for Childhood Cancer Survivors

Childhood cancer survivors are 3.4 times more likely to report pain with daily interference compared to those without a history of...

Pediatric cancer pain management requires balancing function with comfort

For many people living with cancer and undergoing its various treatments, some degree of pain is inevitable, and children are no ...

Some childhood cancer survivors at higher risk for pain as adults

Certain long-term childhood cancer survivors appeared more likely than their siblings who never had cancer to experience pain as adults,...

Tools to Help Assess Your Child’s Cancer Pain

When your child is in pain, everything else falls by the wayside. When you are able to assess and manage their pain, your child, your...

Unlocking the Mystery of Your Child’s Cancer Pain

Pain can be present at the time of a cancer diagnosis, during treatment and supportive care, and pain can continue to plague patients and...

Study: Karate can help kids with cancer pain

A new study from Wayne State University School of Medicine found that Kids Kicking Cancer was effective for the vast majority of patients...

Making Cancer Less Painful for Kids Parent & Caregiver Survey

Parents and children often say that pain is one of the most distressing parts of a cancer diagnosis. Cancer Knowledge Network (CKN) is...

Pain Squad App

Every year at SickKids, hundreds of kids are battling various forms of cancer. Pain is a common and distressing symptom of cancer and its...

Calling on the Pain Squad

Every year at SickKids, hundreds of kids are battling various forms of cancer. Pain is a common and distressing symptom of cancer and its...

New iPhone app helps kids with cancer fight pain

Pain Squad is an iPhone app that helps kids and teens with cancer track how intense their pain is, how long it lasts, where it hurts as...

Pediatric Cancer Survivors Treated With Abdominopelvic RT Have Higher Risk of CRC

Study shows potential of new treatment strategies for most common childhood cancer

Promising target for CAR T cells helps cancer trick the immune system

Palliative Care Important for Young Patients During ‘Identity Development’

Scientists discover new Achilles heel of leukemia cells

Promising investigational therapy improves survival in aggressive childhood brain tumor

Childhood cancer mortality has fallen significantly in the US, but disparities have emerged

St. Jude scientists identify T-cell differentiation nodes to improve cancer-killing

Analysis shows high rate of ‘significant’ health problems in childhood cancer survivors

Fusion oncoprotein forces cell fates toward rhabdomyosarcoma