Arm Measurements a Better Assessment of Nutritional Status in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Body mass index (BMI) is helpful in assessing the health of children and adolescents with cancer. However, it does not distinguish muscle...
Apr 5, 2017
Study finds more childhood cancer survivors would likely benefit from genetic screening
Twelve percent of childhood cancer survivors carry germline mutations that put them or their children at increased risk of developing...
Apr 5, 2017
Premature ovarian insufficiency tied to pelvic radiotherapy, alkylating agent exposure
Women who had childhood cancer may have an increased risk for premature ovarian insufficiency after treatment with pelvic radiotherapy...
Apr 4, 2017
Here's Why Childhood Brain Tumour Survivors Can Be Prone to Heart Diseases
A recent study correlates childhood brain tumours survivors' high body fat with an increased risk of developing heart diseases and...
Mar 27, 2017
Childhood cancer survivors benefit from reduced radiation treatment
The rate of second malignancies in survivors of childhood cancer is declining — an improvement linked to reduced radiation treatment of...
Mar 1, 2017
Pregnancy in survivors of childhood cancer may confer elevated risk for cardiotoxicity
Pregnancy may be linked to an increased risk for cardiotoxicity in patients who survived cancer in childhood, according to a research...
Feb 21, 2017
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

