12 August 2021
Although chemotherapy is the standard treatment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and has made it one of the most survivable childhood cancers, the chemotherapy drug class thiopurines can cause mutations that result in relapse. The findings were published in Nature Cancer.
10 August 2021
Research published in the British Medical Journal’s Archives of Disease in Childhood has shown that children with haematological malignancies (blood cancers) are at no higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease than children with other types of cancer. Previously published research from this project had shown that overall, children with cancer were at no higher risk of severe disease as a result of infection by the SARS-CoV2 virus than healthy children.
3 August 2021
Cured. For someone with cancer, the word elicits images of exultation, relief and celebration. But for most childhood cancer survivors, “cure” is not the end of the journey.
30 July 2021
A young woman with a prosthetic leg hopes to make the world a more empathetic place. If only she didn’t have to do it during the first dates.
29 July 2021
Vincristine and dexamethasone pulses can be safely eliminated from low-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment
21 July 2021
A hospital in Montreal has used “heated chemotherapy” to attack the cancer of a three-year-old boy in what is believed to be one of the first times in Canada the treatment was used on such a young patient.
19 July 2021
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IMAGE: DR. ELVIN WAGENBLAST, POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW AT THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER CENTRE, UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK, IS THE FIRST AUTHOR. view more
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For the first time, Princess Margaret researchers have mapped out where and how leukemia begins and develops in infants with Down syndrome in preclinical models, paving the way to potentially prevent this cancer in the future.
Children with Down syndrome have a 150-fold increased risk of developing myeloid leukemia within the first five years of their life. Yet the mechanism by which the extra copy of chromosome 21 predisposes to leukemia remains unclear.
12 July 2021
It’s incredible that we live in a world where we can search our symptoms online and within seconds, we’re given thousands of suggestions as to what we are dealing with. But it can also be a cancer survivor’s worst enemy. Most of the symptoms people suffer from as side-effects from cancer treatment will align with any other number of cancers and can lead you down a rabbit hole of despair if you let it.
8 July 2021
Want to know what it’s like to be a teenage survivor of childhood cancer? We asked 16-year-old Michael G. to share his experience, during National Cancer Survivor Month.
9 June 2021
Nine years later, not only is Goff cancer-free, she also works as an oncology nurse at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital — on the same floor where she received cancer treatment as a patient.
