Landmark Study Finds Pediatric Cancer Survivors Have Reduced Exercise Capacity
Pediatric cancer survivors have significantly lower exercise capacity than their siblings, according to a groundbreaking Miller School...
Jan 18, 2013
Tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity up in childhood cancer survivors
(HealthDay)—About one-quarter of adult survivors of childhood cancer who received chest-directed radiation therapy (RT) have increased...
Jan 18, 2013
Risk model may predict thyroid cancer in childhood cancer survivors
A model that accounts for self-reported risk factors, as well as basic radiation and chemotherapy information, predicted thyroid cancer...
Dec 5, 2012
Predicting the age at menopause of women having suffered from childhood cancers
This study provided important data about the fertility window of women who had suffered from childhood cancer and information concerning...
Dec 5, 2012
Possible Cure For Infertility In Childhood Cancer Survivors, Study Says
Cancer patients who undergo radiation therapy or chemotherapy often become infertile. While post-pubescent men have the option of...
Nov 6, 2012
Child Cancer Patients at Greater Risk of Diabetes, Study Shows
Cancer patients who underwent radiation therapy as children are at greater risk of developing diabetes later in life, a finding that...
Aug 24, 2012
Cancer survivors, siblings miss more school days
(Reuters Health) - Years after they were first diagnosed, childhood cancer survivors - along with their brothers and sisters - missed...
Aug 17, 2012
2-D Echo Is Inadequate Cardiomyopathy Screen in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography appears to be inadequate for identifying cardiomyopathy in adults who survive childhood...
Jul 17, 2012
Big progress in treating side effects of adults who had cancer as children
As childhood cancer treatments have become more successful, more and more patients are surviving to adulthood. In fact, the National...
Jul 17, 2012
Cancer in childhood can have negative impact on career readiness
Young adult survivors of childhood cancer often have problems maintaining jobs and relationships, researchers have found. A new study of...
Jul 5, 2012