Childhood Cancers

Childhood cancer survivors need long-term surveillance to keep up with late-term effects, screenings, and other health-related issues.

Researchers identify what survivors need to get physically active.

Childhood cancer survivors find lifelong care at ACE program.

CURE chooses the winning essay for it 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.

Reorienting kids to their academic and social lives after cancer.

The risk of secondary cancers in childhood cancer survivors and what survivors can do to protect themselves.

Childhood cancer survivors skip needed mammograms

Childhood cancer patients make their mark in art exhibit

Why treatment of one cancer could lead to the diagnosis of a new cancer.

What I didn't know then about childhood cancer.

Treanda and Sancuso patch approved.

Flipping cancer's "off" switch.

Photographers offer services to childhood cancer patients.

News updates from the American Society of Hematology and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

New law funds pediatric cancer research.

Childhood cancer garners sympathy from all, but drug development from few.

Adult cancers are biologically different from childhood cancer, resulting in different treatments and different success rates.

Researchers explore ways to improve drug evaluations in pediatric clinical trials.

Advocates are working together to increase awareness and research in childhood cancers.

Drug development in childhood cancer has picked up the pace in recent years.

Childhood cancer survivors are at higher risk for heart disease.

Igniting progress in the cure of children with cancer.

Twins' blood may explain how childhood leukemia develops.

Lu Sipos' Chemo Duck comforts childhood cancer patients.

Blood counts predict leukemia survival and relapse.

Senate passes the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act for research funding.

Strategies for diagnosing and treating sarcomas shift to a more patient-specific approach.

Some cancer therapies can increase the risk of secondary cancers such as sarcoma, especially for childhood cancer survivors.

While sarcomas can be divided into soft-tissue or bone sarcomas, there are about 600 different types of sarcomas patients can be diagnosed with.

Delayed diagnosis too common.