Brain cancer has left Tayden Ybarra, 16, legally blind in her left eye, says her mother, Tammy Ybarra. “She doesn’t see side to side, up, down, only like a pinpoint in the front.” At school, bullies ...
When oncologists gave my 5-year-old daughter the all-clear from high-risk neuroblastoma in 2010, I breathed a sigh of relief. But her health needs were just beginning. Fifteen years later, the intense ...
Kathleen Labrie is running the 2026 Boston Marathon for the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Cancer team. The post ...
Gwendolyn Baughn is a 4-year-old with a big personality. Her parents say she is strong and resilient despite the challenges ...
Niam Yadlapati, an eight-year-old cancer survivor and Sage Canyon School third grader, recently hosted the very successful first-annual Niam’s Run for Kids with Cancer to raise funds for the Leukemia ...
Every year, an estimated 400,000 children worldwide develop a form of cancer. Five-year survival rates in high-income nations are typically over 80%, with an expected cure rate of near 100% for some ...
Their goal is to develop a low-toxicity, combination treatment strategy that we believe could be a game-changer for children and families facing cancer. The medical field has long focused on ...
The pediatric cancer community was "devastated" after a flurry of bills that would have reauthorized funding for pediatric cancer research were pulled from a spending bill this week, Nancy Goodman, ...
Imagine your child develops a skin rash of red dots, runs a fever and feels tired. When things don’t improve within a few days, you go to see your child’s pediatrician. They say it might be a virus, ...
Most of the time, when we get our hair cut, it ends up on the floor and in the trash. But it doesn’t have to.