Low risk of long-term health problems in adult survivors of childhood leukemia: SickKids-led study
New international research led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) provides evidence that in addition to an excellent chance of...
Jun 25, 2014
Childhood cancer survivors hospitalized frequently years after cancer treatment
Survivors of childhood cancers were hospitalized more often and for longer durations because of blood disorders and other problems, many...
Jun 13, 2014
MRI catches breast cancer early in at-risk survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma
The largest clinical study to evaluate breast cancer screening of female survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), who are at...
May 29, 2014
Childhood cancer survivors: Less frequent heart screening may be more cost effective
Less frequent cardiac screening may be just as effective for monitoring risk in survivors of childhood cancer, according to two analyses...
May 26, 2014
Social Competence in Childhood Cancer Patients
Social deficits have been observed as a consistent ‘late effect’ for childhood cancer patients. A late effect is a side effect that...
May 26, 2014
Exploring a mobile app to promote physical activity for childhood cancer survivors
W hile advances in cancer treatments have led to an increase in the number of childhood cancer survivors in the United States, this...
May 9, 2014
Taste and smell dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors
Childhood cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy may have long-term negative impacts on taste and smell function,...
May 2, 2014
How Big the Breast Cancer Risk After Radiation as Child?
Women who survived childhood cancers treated with chest radiotherapy had a breast cancer risk 20 times greater than that of women in the...
Apr 25, 2014
Pediatric cancer survivors at increased risk for mortality, morbidity after age 35
Adult survivors of childhood cancers demonstrated a fivefold higher risk than their siblings for developing new cancers or other...
Apr 17, 2014
Health gap between adult survivors of childhood cancer and siblings widens with age
Adult survivors of childhood cancer face significant health problems as they age and are five times more likely than their siblings to...
Mar 18, 2014