Can childhood cancer treatments affect survivors' sex lives in adulthood?
A recent analysis showed that although adult survivors of childhood cancer did not differ overall from their peers in terms of their...
Feb 7, 2017
Strategies needed to improve childhood cancer survivors’ adherence to long-term follow-up
Fewer than half of childhood cancer survivors receive recommended long-term follow-up care, according to findings of a study led by...
Jan 24, 2017
A new urgency to protect survivors of childhood cancer
One of medicine’s greatest successes is the sharp rise in survival rates for children with cancer. But the flip side of that success is...
Dec 28, 2016
Survival After Pediatric Cancer: Reducing the Lifetime Burden
More children now survive cancer and go on to live years, or even decades, into adulthood. But this silver lining has a cloud: late...
Dec 20, 2016
Most Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Discontinue Needed Long-Term Follow-Up Care
The first comprehensive study analyzing follow-up care among childhood cancer survivors concludes that fewer than half of the adult...
Nov 18, 2016
Study Identifies Factors Associated With Platinum-induced Ototoxicity in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
Treatment with a higher total cumulative dose of cisplatin, young age, and concomitant furosemide administration are associated with an...
Nov 18, 2016
Childhood Cancer Survivors: Genetic Clues Help Prevent Late Effects
[...] although the main focus of research continues to be the 20% of children who are not surviving, researchers are also recognizing the...
Nov 15, 2016
Cardiac mortality risk elevated in patients diagnosed with cancer at young age
Patients diagnosed with cancer at age 15 to 19 years who survived at least 5 years had a higher risk for cardiac death compared with...
Nov 11, 2016
Childhood cancer survivors living longer, but health suffers
Thanks to improvements in cancer treatment, childhood cancer survivors are now living longer than ever. But new research suggests that...
Nov 8, 2016
Diabetes and obesity are common among childhood cancer survivors
After cancer, patients are likely to struggle with hormone-related conditions later in life. Read more here: http://scienceline.org/2016/...
Nov 1, 2016

