Researchers study treatment for chronic pain in childhood cancer survivors
Treatments that could help alleviate the chronic pain experienced by thousands of childhood cancer survivors are being investigated by...
Nov 4, 2024
‘Alarmingly’ few childhood cancer survivors undergo recommended surveillance for late effects
A high percentage of childhood survivors do not undergo guideline-recommended monitoring for late effects, according to results of a...
Oct 22, 2024
Survivors of childhood brain cancer are more likely to be held back in school
Survivors were also 21 times more likely to receive accommodations at school, such as help taking tests, in addition to their worse test...
Oct 21, 2024
Fear of Recurrence Is Common Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Adults who survived childhood cancer experience elevated fear that their primary cancer will recur or that a subsequent malignant...
Oct 7, 2024
As patients develop cancer at younger ages, psycho-oncologists are studying the mental health impact
While increased awareness of the growing rates of cancer in younger populations is important, psychologists say the conversation needs to...
Oct 4, 2024
Uncovering and Addressing Unmet Needs in Pediatric Cancer Care
In an interview with OncLive ®, Armenian discussed ongoing research that aims to enhance the quality of care for childhood cancer...
Oct 3, 2024
Supporting oncology patients with neurocognitive late effects
Here, CHOC psychologists Drs. Tiffany Torigoe-Lai and Eric Proffitt , along with CHOC neuropsychologist Dr. Diana Cohen, provide an...
Sep 25, 2024
Healing Without Harm: Reducing Chemo Toxicities
“One thing we can do to really help patients with cancer is to make chemotherapy safer without reducing its effectiveness. I believe this...
Sep 24, 2024
Childhood cancer treatments increase keratinocyte carcinoma risk among survivors
Radiotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplant increased the risk for keratinocyte carcinoma development in childhood cancer survivors,...
Sep 17, 2024
After my daughter's cancer, I wanted to control her entire life. Then she went to college.
"If mother-daughter relationships can be complicated, our tangled mess of emotion and trauma took complicated to a new level. No one told...
Sep 12, 2024