... in end-of-life care and the availability of hospice and other community resources.
The number of children with cancer who die in pain is unknown, though parent interview studies have revealed that ...
... University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a possible approach to therapy that may make ... Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics from the Children's Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson ...
... digital communications technology to help young cancer patients at home manage the side-effects ... life," said Dr Gibson, a senior lecturer in children's cancer nursing research at the Institute of Child ...
... to the development of targeted therapies, and thus improve the treatment of cerebellar tumours in children." When children develop cancer, about every fifth tumour is a brain tumour – and every fifth ...
... ensure each child receives the most appropriate treatment for their disease and that we reduce the number of children in which their cancer recurs."
Kate Law, director of clinical trials at Cancer ...
... clinical sciences at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, and Andrew Pearson, chairman of paediatric oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research at Royal Marsden Hospital in the UK. ...
... Along with that improvement comes what is known as "late effects" associated with the treatment children with cancer receive. These effects are often chronic problems, such as memory and concentration ...
... if I saw a young woman with breast cancer, I would be focused on getting her into ... on before the day they were diagnosed."
The survival rate of children with cancer is nearly 80 percent in the United ...
... in the journal Cancer, raises critical questions about the long term outlook for children with cancer. "These are very significant findings," says Barbara Kaminsky, CEO Canadian Cancer Society BC and ...
... older.
"We needed to better understand how common it is for moms and dads to talk with their children about cancer running in the family and how they reach those decisions," says Tercyak. "Children ...
Siblings of cancer victims often feel left out and have nobody to share their grief with. However, the illness may help strengthen the bond between a healthy and a cancer-stricken sibling.
... explain why, after other factors are adjusted for, some children get cancer," said Logan Spector, Ph.D ... journal Epidemiology.
Currently, about 1 in 435 children under the age of 15 in the United States ...
Endothelial progenitor cells may play a role in the start and progression of metastatic disease in children with cancer, according to study results published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of ...
... The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) wants families to instead
use poultry, fish, low-fat ... risk of developing
cancer later in life," the charity said.
"It makes sense for children to adopt a healthy ...
... do well, but if they have it the chances are higher."
Nearly one-quarter of children with cancer have ALL, National Cancer Institute statistics show. The disease occurs when abnormal white blood ...
