More Pediatric Cancer News

• Gene Governs Response to Leukemia Chemotherapy

  January 7 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation in leukemia cells predicts which children with acute ...

• Technique Preserves Future Fertility in Girls with Cancer

  November 5 (HealthDay News) -- Girls with childhood cancer may still be able to bear ...

• Chemo Alone Effective in Treating Kids' Brain Tumors

  October 10 (HealthDay News) -- Using chemotherapy alone, and delaying or avoiding radiation altogether, may ...

• Survival Rates Improve for Kids with Blood Cancers

  September 10 (HealthDay News) -- In the United States, 5- and 10-year survival rates continue ...

• One-Fifth of British Childhood Cancer Survivors Smoke

  August 6 (HealthDay News) -- A fifth of British adults who survived childhood cancers currently ...

• Immunotherapy Boosts Treatment of Kids' High-Risk Sarcomas

  August 4 (HealthDay News) -- Immunotherapy shows promise in treating children with high-risk sarcomas, according ...

• U.S. Childhood Cancers Vary by Sex, Region

  June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A sweeping government study of childhood cancers has found numerous ...

• Young Hodgkin Survivors Face Later Risk of Second Cancers

  June 1 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived Hodgkin disease when they were children or ...

• Hodgkin Lymphoma Kids Face Greater Risk of Future Problems

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived Hodgkin lymphoma as children have an increased ...

• Childhood Cancer Survivors Prone to Early Heart Trouble

  May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who had cancer as children or teens are more ...

• Gene Variation Linked to Neuroblastoma, a Childhood Cancer

  May 7 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, a gene linked to the often ...

• New Drug for Brain Cancer Too Dangerous for Pediatric Patients

  March 10 (HealthDay News) -- A cutting-edge drug for brain cancers may place pediatric patients ...

• Viral Therapy Slows Pediatric Tumors in Mice

  Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A laboratory-engineered virus can successfully slow the growth of two ...

• Study Gets Closer to Origins of Leukemia

  Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- By studying blood cells in a young pair of twins, ...

• Body Abnormalities, Childhood Cancer May Share Genes

  Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Dutch scientists have discovered that children who have cancer also ...

• U.S. Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall

  Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Death rates from cancer are dropping more quickly across the ...

• Use Two Drugs at Once to Beat Leukemia: Study

  August 17 (HealthDay News) -- Simultaneous treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients with a ...

• Umbilical Cord Beats Marrow for Leukemia Transplants

  June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Transplanted blood cells from umbilical cords appear to give better ...

• Childhood Leukemia Survivors at Long-Term Risk of Second Cancer

  March 21 (HealthDay News) -- The longest such study of its kind has found that ...