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Published on Monday, August 27, 2012 by mcypen
A new study has shown that children receiving treatment for cancer are at a higher risk of developing diabetes. The study shows that chemotherapy and other radiation treatments tend to exacerbate the condition. Experts warn this means health care providers need to consider new treatments for children suffering from the conditions. The study was coordinated by a team o...
Published on Monday, July 16, 2012 by mcypen
As childhood cancer treatments have become more successful, more and more patients are surviving to adulthood. In fact, the National Cancer Institute estimates that one in nearly every 500 adults in the United States between ages 20 and 45 is a survivor of childhood cancer.
With longer survival, there’s more chance that young patients will experience the late effec...
Published on Thursday, July 5, 2012 by mcypen
Young adult survivors of childhood cancer often have problems maintaining jobs and relationships, researchers have found. Â A new study of childhood brain tumor survivors by disability researcher David Strauser, a professor of community health at the University of Illinois, suggests that a battle with cancer during a critical developmental period in middle childhood m...
Published on Thursday, June 14, 2012 by mcypen
Jenna Langer was a high school senior when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, the most common form of bone cancer in children and teens.
The tumor was buried deep in Langer's sinuses, forcing doctors to attack it with intense radiation and chemotherapy instead of surgery.
"Unfortunately, I've had some long term side effects from the treatment that saved my life," ...
Published on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 by mcypen
About 75 percent of children with leukemia who take chemotherapy face life-threatening heart problems as they age, but an international study led by a University of Rochester Medical Center investigator shows that giving a cardio-protective drug during cancer treatment may prevent the damage.
Researchers and physicians will debate how to make young cancer patients an...
Published on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 by mcypen
Children diagnosed with cancer remain at risk from a variety of serious, long-term complications even years after doctors pronounce them cured.
Now, new research shows that girls treated with radiation for pediatric tumors face a later risk of breast cancer that's six to seven times as high as that of other women.
The findings affect not only women who were tr...
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