St Jude Childrens Research Hospital

Young children who underwent treatment for brain tumors had lower academic readiness scores than their peers, according to results of a prospective longitudinal trial.

Standardized surveillance enabled early tumor detection for a variety of cancer predisposition syndromes, allowing for surgical resection and treatment of children and young adults with cancer, study findings in JAMA Oncology showed.

Childhood cancer survivors had a significantly higher prevalence of smoking than the general population, contrary to previous research, according to a study published in BMC Cancer.

The combination of abnormal baseline global longitudinal strain and N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide is associated with a more than fourfold risk for subsequent cardiomyopathy among certain childhood cancer survivors.

A COVID-19 diagnosis led to a delay in receiving chemotherapy among younger patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma, results from a retrospective analysis published in JAMA Network Open showed.

By 2030, all members of the Baby Boom generation will be aged 65 years or older.

Survivors of childhood cancer are more likely to have prediabetes at younger ages than the general public, increasing their already elevated risk for diabetes and cardiovascular and kidney diseases, study findings showed.

Outcomes among children with acute myeloid leukemia treated with high-dose cytarabine-based regimens did not vary by race, according to study results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The first three patients who received an investigational gene therapy for sickle cell disease experienced dramatic reductions in complications related to sickle cell disease, according to results of a first-in-human study.

Nirali N. Shah, MD, MHSc, was a self-proclaimed “big math nerd” growing up.