Childhood cancer survival rate up
Children diagnosed with the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, now have a nine in 10 chance of beating...
Mar 14, 2012
Supply of a Cancer Drug May Run Out Within Weeks
A crucial medicine to treat childhood leukemia is in such short supply that hospitals across the country may exhaust their stores within...
Feb 13, 2012
Inherited Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia are More Common in Hispanic Patients
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Results from a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology...
Feb 1, 2012
Study: Child leukemia doubles near nuclear power plants
The incidence of leukemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the...
Jan 13, 2012
Kids' leukemia risk tied to dad's smoking
Children whose fathers smoked around the time of their conception have at least a 15 percent higher risk of developing the most common...
Dec 23, 2011