Tag Archive | Pediatric cancer
A Warning for Childhood Cancer Survivors
As the hundreds of people at last weekend’s Cancer Survivors Day event could attest, overcoming cancer is a hard-earned victory. Unfortunately, double jeopardy laws don’t apply to cancer, and a patient who has beaten the disease once must remain vigilant about its potential return. A new study of people who survived cancer during their childhood […]
Cancer Disparities at an Early Age
Racial disparities have been described for almost every type of cancer, with the gap in outcomes widening or holding steady between black and white patients in breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancers. Much debate has occurred over the causes of these disparities, with most focusing on the overlapping factors of socioeconomic status, access to health […]
A Big Leap for Neuroblastoma
Cancer successes are usually measured in months, not years. Large clinical trial on promising new treatments are celebrated when they show an average effect of a dozen weeks, and extension of life that can be measured in years is cause for rapture. So a new treatment that cuts down a high-risk cancer’s recurrence rate over […]
What makes pediatric cancer trials so popular?
By Jeremy Manier Gina Kolata has an interesting story in the New York Times today about the lack of volunteers for cancer research trials, but she left out a facet that has puzzled me: Even though few adults enter cancer studies, the vast majority of kids with cancer do get enrolled in trials. Why? Kolata […]
