Oncology & Cancer
Childhood cancer treatment may raise adult heart disease risk
(HealthDay)—Children who survive cancer may face a higher risk of heart disease as adults, new research suggests.
Jan 5, 2016
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Immunology
Childhood cancer survivors at heightened risk of several autoimmune diseases
Childhood cancer survivors are at heightened risk of a wide range of autoimmune diseases, reveals research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Nov 10, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Computerized cognitive training improves childhood cancer survivors' attention and memory
Intensive, adaptive computer-based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late ...
Oct 12, 2015
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Cardiology
Survivors of childhood cancer have high-risk of recurrent stroke
Most people assume strokes only happen to octogenarians, but recent evidence suggests that survivors of childhood cancer have a high risk of suffering a stroke at a surprisingly young age.
Aug 26, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Subsequent neoplasm risk up for decades in child CA survivors
(HealthDay)—Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk for treatment-related subsequent neoplasms (SNs), even after age 40 years, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Aug 13, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Young adults who survive cancer hospitalized more often than the general population
Advances in the treatment of adolescents and young adults with cancer have resulted in higher survival rates and longer life expectancies. But up to 20 years after people in the 20-44 age group are declared cancer-free, they ...
Jul 13, 2015
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Cardiology
Cardiac dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors examined
(HealthDay)—For long-term childhood cancer survivors, abnormal global longitudinal strain and diastolic function are more prevalent than reduced three dimensional (3D) left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), according ...
Jun 9, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Improved therapies have extended life spans of childhood cancer survivors
(HealthDay)—Treatment adjustments have significantly increased the life spans of childhood cancer survivors in the United States and Canada, according to new research.
Jun 1, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer treatments got gentler, yet kids' survival improved
The move to make cancer treatments gentler for children has paid a double dividend: More kids are surviving than ever before, and without the long-term complications that doomed many of their peers a generation ago, new research ...
Jun 1, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Certain treatments for childhood cancer may increase obesity risk later in life
Childhood cancer survivors - especially those whose treatment included brain irradiation or chemotherapy with glucocorticoids - are 14 percent more likely to be obese than their healthy peers. The St. Jude Children's Research ...
May 11, 2015
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