Surviving Childhood Cancer: A 20 year reflection
In part one of his engaging life reflection, Dr. Ted Sibley recounts his early years as a teen unexpectedly hit with a cancer diagnosis....
Apr 29, 2015
Commentary – Survivors of Childhood Cancer in the United States: Prevalence and Burden of Morbidity
Estimates of the overall 5-year survival rates for childhood cancers have steadily increased since the 1970s and are currently over 80% ....
Apr 29, 2015
Late Effects: One Survivor’s Experience
In 1978 I was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma to my left chest wall. At that time, Ewing’s was almost uniformly fatal. Rather than let...
Apr 14, 2015
Pulmonary-Toxic Therapies Linked with Defects in Childhood Cancer
Childhood cancer survivors who have been exposed to therapies that cause pulmonary dysfunction are associated with more restrictive...
Apr 14, 2015
Number of childhood cancer survivors increasing, most have morbidities
The prevalence of childhood cancer survivors is estimated to have increased, and the majority of those who have survived five or more...
Apr 14, 2015
Survivors of childhood cancer at risk for developing hormone deficiencies as adults
Decades after undergoing cranial irradiation for childhood cancer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators found that adult...
Feb 13, 2015
B.C. childhood cancer survivors to receive specialized help
The provincial government has announced a program to provide special services to adult survivors of childhood cancer — many of whom were...
Feb 6, 2015
Variation in risk for late mortality among pediatric cancer survivors can persist up to 20 years pos
Although all survivors of pediatric cancer face increased risk for death, the risk is reduced as survivors age through childhood and...
Jan 29, 2015
Cranial radiotherapy associated with increased risk of anterior hypopituitarism
In a retrospective review of over 700 childhood cancer survivors (CCS) treated with cranial radiotherapy, over 50% developed anterior...
Jan 13, 2015
Childhood cancer treatments can result in a host of chronic illnesses
The American Cancer Society states that between 1975 and 2010, childhood cancer mortality fell by a staggering 50 per cent. Today, of the...
Nov 24, 2014