Monitoring for breast cancer after childhood chest radiation: When and how?
Simulation finds starting at age 30 with MRI and mammography to be the preferred strategy; starting at 25 prevented marginally more...
Jul 10, 2020
Online tool helps doctors predict whether childhood cancer treatment will lead to premature menopaus
Risk calculator developed by U of A master’s student could help reduce long-term health consequences for girls who survive cancer. Read...
Jun 23, 2020
Identifying survivors at high risk of secondary cancers
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are studying the combined effect of cancer treatments and inherited mutations in...
Jun 8, 2020
Cancer’s toll on the heart decades down the road
New research explores how to lower the risk of heart disease in childhood cancer survivors. Read more: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/...
Jun 3, 2020
Childhood Cancer Survivors See Uptick in Colorectal Polyps
Childhood cancer survivors are developing colorectal polyps unrelated to a familial syndrome, the usual association, according to new...
Jun 3, 2020
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,...
May 29, 2020
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain
The majority of patients who overcome cancer experience the condition, which is marked by mental fogginess, slowed thinking, memory...
May 6, 2020
Study provides new details about therapy-associated polyposis in childhood cancer survivors
In a paper published online today, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers provide new details about a recently discovered condition in...
Feb 13, 2020
Cure for childhood cancer may come at the cost of premature aging
"Data show that more than 80% of children with cancer will survive beyond 10 years, joining the growing number of childhood cancer...
Feb 12, 2020
Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors may have an elevated risk of hospitalizations
"Adolescent and young adults who survived at least two years after a cancer diagnosis had nearly double the risk of being hospitalized...
Jan 20, 2020