Childhood cancer is rare, but catching it early can make a real difference to a child's outcome. The trouble is, the first ...

Most expectant parents know smoking during pregnancy isn't good for the baby, but few realise just how far-reaching the ...

Clinical research has transformed childhood cancer survival in the past 50 years. Cooperative group trials have tailored therapy according to risk stratification, with overall survival across all ...

The COO of non-profit Smile-A-Mile says the story is an example: “We feel it’s important to remind people that many children ...

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 ...

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute collaborated with multiple institutions to pinpoint rare germline structural variants as risk factors for non-blood-related cancers in children, including ...

Children are much more likely to survive cancer today than 50 years ago. Unfortunately, as adults, many of them develop cardiovascular disease, secondary cancers, or both, believed to result from the ...

Within minutes, the pediatric oncologist with the Aflac Cancer Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was bald. "It will grow back," ...

What began as a complaint of chest pain from an eight-year-old boy turned into a life-altering diagnosis that changed the ...

Parents in Ladera Ranch are concerned about pesticide use, which they question is the cause of a cluster of rare cancers in ...

Tiana Bender-Santiago is doing what cancer said she couldn’t. The 28-year-old, diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive ...