Yale Medicine pediatric neuro-oncologist Dr. Asher Marks explains why children may seem different after brain tumor treatment, and how physical therapy, school support, and time can help. Read more: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/support-for-children-after-brain-tumor-treatment

MPP wants the Ford government to create the Ontario Caregiver Support Benefit to ease the financial burden on over 4.2 million Ontarians who provide unpaid care to others. Read more: https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/health/once-again-ontario-mpp-pushes-bill-to-support-caregivers-across-the-province-12994057

New partnership with VIA Rail and Canada's Children's Hospital Foundations will offer complimentary train travel to six children’s hospitals along the Québec City-Windsor corridor: CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal Children’s Hospital, CHEO, SickKids, McMaster Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in London. By supporting families with travel to these children’s hospitals, this partnership aims to ease the burden that some families face. Read more: https://media.viarail.ca/e

The use of non-pharmacologic strategies, particularly hypnosis and distraction, significantly mitigates pain intensity and fear among children undergoing active cancer therapy. Read more: https://www.clinicalpainadvisor.com/news/psychosocial-interventions-pediatric-cancer-pain/

An immunotherapy for neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that strikes young children, works by flagging tumor cells for the immune system to destroy. Penn State College of Medicine researchers found that blocking a protein called VPS34 causes tumor cells to display more of the molecule that flag attaches to, making them easier for immune cells to find and kill. Read more: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-pediatric-cancer-visible-boosts-immunotherapy.html

For the growing population of children who survive a first cancer diagnosis, the battle is often assumed to be over once remission is achieved. Yet a new study from Beijing Children’s Hospital is drawing attention to a quieter, slower-moving threat that can emerge years later: second primary thyroid cancer, or SPTC, a malignancy that arises in the thyroid gland of a patient who has already beaten another childhood cancer. Read more: https://bioengineer.org/thyroid-cancer-afte

For a child undergoing cancer treatment, the hospital ward can be an isolating world of needles, scans, and long stretches away from friends and school. A new cross-sectional study from researchers at Ataturk University in Erzurum, Türkiye, adds a striking psychological dimension to that picture: children with cancer who have difficulty identifying and describing their own emotions— a trait known as alexithymia—also tend to experience markedly higher levels of social anxiety.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published the first edition of its NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Pediatric Bone Sarcoma, extending its widely used library of evidence-based treatment recommendations to one of the most challenging cancers of childhood and adolescence. Read more: https://bioengineer.org/new-nccn-guidelines-bring-standardized-care-to-children-with-ewing-sarcoma/

Colorectal cancer in teens is extremely rare. But when cases are diagnosed, they’re often advanced and more difficult to treat. Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/teens-get-colorectal-cancer-s-often-aggressive-form-disease-rcna600995

A nationwide study from Karolinska Institutet shows that genetic testing can identify germline predisposition underlying childhood leukemia. The findings, published in Nature Communications, could help enable more personalized treatment and long-term follow-up. Read more: https://news.ki.se/nationwide-study-identifies-inherited-genetic-risk-factors-in-childhood-leukemia