Cancer is the number one cause of disease-related death in children. Each year, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with a form of cancer, and approximately one quarter will not survive the ...

UW researchers found potential new treatments for a rare pediatric brain cancer each year that has a median survival time of ...

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As the name suggests, childhood cancer or pediatric cancer refers to cancer that occurs in children under the age of 15. While it is a rare disease, it remains the leading cause of disease-related ...

Women who have been treated for a childhood, adolescent, or young adult cancer are at an increased risk for developing breast cancer at a young age. 1,2 In fact, breast cancer is the most common ...

Childhood cancer is a topic that many of us may shy away from, but it's an issue that continues to grow and affect families worldwide. While cancer is often associated with older adults, children are ...

Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new ...

A history of childhood cancer more than doubled the risk of melanoma and premature death in adults, a large retrospective review showed. Although the absolute risk of melanoma at 40 years was small, ...

It was in 2010 that the Johnson family, Sharon, Jeff, and daughter Julia, was asked to participate in CURE Childhood Cancer’s fundraising initiative called “CURE’s Kids Conquer Childhood Cancer.” This ...

Childhood cancer rates are the highest in the Northeast and lowest in the South, a new government cancer map shows. Leukemia is more common in the western states, while rates of pediatric lymphoma and ...

What is a Physician-Researcher? A Physician-Researcher is a physician who also devotes significant time and effort toward biomedical research. They can also be called physician-scientists or medical ...

The famous childhood cancer charity FAM has used P-Diddy's 'Bad Boys For Life' track for its theme song for its entire existence, and now a group of kids suffering from the disease are asking him to ...