Dec 29, 2020
Pediatric cancer pain management requires balancing function with comfort
For many people living with cancer and undergoing its various treatments, some degree of pain is inevitable, and children are no ...
Dec 14, 2020
Radiation Therapy for Childhood Leukemia Alters BMI Heritability, Study Finds
Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), who are at high risk for obesity, exhibit alterations in genetic...
Dec 11, 2020
Study finds paediatric cancer patients at no greater risk of severe COVID-19 infection
Results from the first national study of children with cancer who test positive from COVID-19 has found that these patients do not...
Dec 9, 2020
Genetic variants linked to heart health in African American childhood cancer survivors
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified genetic variants in African American childhood cancer survivors...
Dec 8, 2020
Breakthrough Enables Prediction of Relapse in Common Childhood Cancer
New research has allowed experts to identify the time, nature, and outcome of pediatric medulloblastoma relapse, allowing physicians to ...
Dec 7, 2020
Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma at Increased Risk for Neurocognitive Impairment
"Despite receiving no neurotoxic therapy directed to the central nervous system, long-term survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)...
Dec 2, 2020
Investigating Packaged CAR T-Cells For Early Childhood Eye Cancer
For some children with the rare eye cancer retinoblastoma, results from a study in mice suggest that a type of immunotherapy known as...