Air pollution poses risks for childhood cancer survivors
Poor air quality days significantly increase the risk of hospitalizations for respiratory issues in young survivors of cancer. Read more:...
Apr 24, 2019
Which chemotherapy drugs have the highest cardiotoxicity risk in pediatric cancer?
A recent study published in JAMA Oncology analyzed data generated from over 28,000 childhood cancer survivors and compared the lifetime...
Apr 16, 2019
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Michigan working with mice...
Apr 3, 2019
Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT
A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who...
Apr 2, 2019
This Adorable Monkey Represents Fertility Hope For Male Childhood Cancer Survivors
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists announced a milestone Thursday in their efforts to preserve the fertility of young...
Mar 25, 2019
Treatments for childhood cancer can devastate lives years later. Scientists are trying to change tha
More than 30 years ago, a new kind of patient began to appear in the cardiology clinic at Boston Children's Hospital: young people whose...
Mar 14, 2019
Childhood cancer survivors at high risk for skin malignancies
As adults, childhood cancer survivors have a 30-fold higher risk than the general population of developing common skin malignancies known...
Mar 11, 2019
Daunorubicin reduces cardiomyopathy risk compared with doxorubicin in childhood cancer survivors
Daunorubicin appeared associated with a lower cardiomyopathy risk than doxorubicin among childhood cancer survivors, according to a...
Jan 31, 2019
Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face high long-term risk of solid cancers
New research refines existing evidence that survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face an elevated risk of developing various types of...
Dec 17, 2018
Genetic profiling may inform breast cancer risk in young childhood cancer survivors
A combined evaluation of common variants with small effects and rare predisposing mutations among young female childhood cancer survivors...
Oct 29, 2018