Oncology

The premise is to use a patient’s own genetic information to guide decisions for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and other health conditions.

Stratifying tumors by their clinical characteristics and underlying biology will enable future targeting of specific therapies for glioma in children.

A new customized therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) offers high remission rates but at a substantial cost, and only at specialized cancer centers.

Surviving cancer is challenging enough, but now a recent report highlights the fact that survivors face double the chronic health challenges of the general population as a result of curative cancer therapies.

While improvements have been made to childhood cancer mortality rates, a recent research study aims to identify how many children die before being able to start treatment, and what interventions can be put in place to improve their chances.

Thyroid cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in pediatric patients. Here's practical information on diagnosing and managing a child with new thyroid nodules.

Although phototherapy is an established and valuable treatment for infants with neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, some investigations have raised concerns that the treatment is associated with cancer.

While it has long been hypothesized that consumption of high-fiber foods reduces the risk of breast cancer, a new study found that this association might be particularly relevant to teenagers and young adults.

Breast and colorectal cancers, although rare in children, are also more aggressive than in adults, according to 2 studies based on patient records from the National Cancer Data Base that were presented at the recent Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Although pediatric cancers are rare and the rate for all childhood and adolescent cancers combined has remained stable from 2000 to 2009, a new study reveals that 2 children’s cancers appear to have increased rates of diagnoses.

Early phase pediatric cancer trials offer hope to children whose cancer defies standard therapy.

Whereas the incidence of cancer among kids is increasing, death from childhood cancer is decreasing.

A new study shows that children who survive cancer may face another battle-heart disease.

Certain modifiable, lifestyle-associated risk factors dramatically increase the odds of childhood cancer survivors developing heart disease as adults. The worst offender may be hypertension.

A girl who consumes 1 alcoholic drink per day between her first menstrual cycle and her first full-term pregnancy increases her risk of proliferative benign breast disease (BBD) and breast cancer, says a new study.

Children and adolescents who undergo a diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scan are 24% more likely to develop cancer in their lifetimes than patients who do not receive the testing, new research has found.

Overall malignant melanoma diagnoses in children and adolescents have been rising steadily since 1973. A new study says that indoor tanning beds could be one factor for the increase of this skin cancer.

Boys who have undescended testes at birth are at increased risk for testicular cancer when older, according to a new meta-analysis.

Children diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have triple the risk for cancer, and the findings hold for those who were never treated with biologic therapies for JIA, according to a new study.

In children younger than 15 years, 2 to 3 computed tomography (CT) scans of the head might triple the risk of brain tumors; 5 to 10 of them might triple the risk of leukemia. New research tries to answer the ongoing question of whether radiation from diagnostic scans causes these pediatric cancers.

Incidences of some kidney cancers and brain tumors in US children have fallen since 1996, and the reductions coincide with the US Food and Drug Administration?s mandated folic acid fortification program. Should folic acid really get the credit?

Perennial concerns about whether cell phones cause brain cancer often focus on children and adolescents. In the first-of-its-kind study, Swiss researchers found that answer is no, and they also offer some advice to parents who are anxious.

Health care providers should be aware that survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) complications later in life and provide appropriate follow-up care, a study published in Gastroenterology indicates.

Exposure to diagnostic radiation in utero and during early infancy may increase the risk of childhood cancers, according to data from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study (UKCCS).

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of the vaccine Gardasil in the population ages 9 through 26 years for the prevention of anal cancer and anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) precancerous lesions grades 1, 2, and 3 caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16, and 18.

Survivors of childhood cancers who received therapeutic radiation to the head or neck have an increased risk of stroke later in life that requires vigilant surveillance and monitoring.

A significant number of patients with cancer are parents of children under 18 years of age.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved several agents for use in pediatric patients, including a new cervical cancer vaccine and a seasonal influenza vaccine.

Links to useful websites about childhood cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration has begun a safety review of four tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, after receiving over reports of cancer caused in children who were taking them.