The pandemic lifestyle we are all adjusting to is the life families of children with cancer have already been living. But there have been positives, too.
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For women and men not ready to have children, there are new ways to preserve fertility. And experimental techniques offer hope for sick children whose treatments jeopardize future childbearing.
Children with cancer often experience terrible pain. Adults who treat them are determined to lessen their suffering. Can the lessons from helping kids with cancer pain inform treatment for adults in pain?
Pediatric cancer is one of the cruelest of diseases, and caregivers develop special skills to help their patients. Research shows that caregivers for adults could learn some things from them.
Why hasn’t there been an improvement in survival in the last 30 years for patients with brain cancers?
Leukaemia used to be a death sentence. Now, the survival rate for the most common form in children is 85%. We can apply similar strategies to how we approach childhood brain cancer.
While there are similarities in the general principles of palliative care provided to children and adults, there are also key differences.
Most children who have cancer live in the developing world where their survival rate is less than 25%. In Kenya awareness about childhood cancer is low and treatment isn’t always readily available.
Nanoparticles are a form of transport for drugs and can go places drugs wouldn’t be able to go on their own. They make drug delivery more targeted, reducing collateral damage to healthy tissues.
Better technology to diagnose, treat and manage the disease early enough is needed to improve the survival rates of childhood cancer in sub Saharan Africa.
Children’s cancer is a rare disease, which means the market is small and pharmaceutical companies have few incentives to develop drugs for these cancers.
If you’re an Australian teenager or young adult diagnosed with cancer, there’s good news: overall survival rates are good and getting better. But what can you expect from life after cancer treatment?
One in ten cancer patients will face fertility issues after treatment, but less than 50% are given options to preserve fertility. And those who are offered options can face significant cost barriers.
Harsh tales of mothers and fathers thrust into the court system as they seek the best treatment for a sick child are a warning.
Childhood deaths from cancer have decreased by nearly 40% in the past 15 years in Australia. But some types of childhood cancer have shown little improvement.
Early intervention in neurocognition and communication can address communication and cognition difficulties in survivors of childhood brain cancer and increase their quality of life.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor (conjoint), Children's Cancer Institute
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Professor of Marketing; Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Texas A&M University
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Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Prof, Haematology and blood transfusion, University of Nairobi
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Cancer Nursing Research Unit, University of Sydney
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Research Associate, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
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Professor, Children's Cancer Institute
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Professor and Head of Research, Cancer Council Queensland
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Lecturer & Research Fellow in Speech Pathology, University of Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
