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
Child Cancer Survivors Face Higher Colon Cancer Risk
People who had cancer as children are at increased risk for developing colon cancer and other types of gastrointestinal cancers later in...
Jun 6, 2012
Childhood cancer survivors face high breast cancer risk
Children diagnosed with cancer remain at risk from a variety of serious, long-term complications even years after doctors pronounce them...
Jun 5, 2012
Childhood cancer effects may linger in adults
Survivors of childhood cancers have an increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss later in life, and for some that may lead...
May 28, 2012
Preventing problems after cancer
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta are part of a national team that has one common vision—to prevent long-term...
Apr 12, 2012
Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk for Cardiac Events
Childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines and/or cardiac irradiation have a higher risk of developing symptomatic cardiac...
Apr 9, 2012

