Radon, Even at Levels Below EPA Guideline for Mitigation, Is Linked to Childhood Leukemia Sep. 30, 2024 — A study of more than 700 counties across multiple U.S. states found a link between ...

BASED on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), around 4,700 new childhood cancer cases among the zero to 19 age ...

But sometimes, these subtle changes can signal something more serious. Childhood leukemia often begins with symptoms so common they’re easy to brush off as everyday kid stuff. That’s what ...

The PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia) Master Trial is at the heart of LLS's Dare to Dream Project to transform treatment and care for kids with blood cancer Infants and children with specific types ...

Department of Food and Nutrition Sciences, College of Agricultural and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia Background: Pediatric leukemia treatment often leads to challenges ...

New markers of treatment resistance or toxicity are needed in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Pharmacogenetic studies can be useful for childhood ALL because treatment protocols are ...

In summary, it is important for clinicians to recognize that a childhood cancer survivor may develop treatment-related complications that may not be evident for several years after the initial ...

Baltimore County elected officials and residents vocally opposed the modification and construction of new overhead power ...

Research has long suggested that bacteria living in our digestive systems - known as the gut microbiome - could be the key to ...

Using data from its Colorado Central Cancer Registry, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) staff identified 451 children between the ages of 2 and 9 with confirmed diagnoses of ...

Survival rates for childhood leukemia are improving thanks to new treatments. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia has the highest survival among all pediatric cancers, 80-85 percent. Seattle Children’s ...