Researchers have used a geriatric rating scale to show that childhood cancer survivors experience accelerated aging and have a higher risk of premature death than the general population.
Exposure to 4 or more CT scans before the age of 18 is associated with an increased risk of intracranial tumors, leukemia, and lymphoma, a study suggests.
Among children receiving maintenance treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, those living in extreme poverty have an increased risk of relapse, a study suggests.
From 15 to 40 years after diagnosis, pediatric cancer survivors have a roughly 4-fold higher risk of death than the general population, a study suggests.
The FDA approved the combination to treat pediatric patients 1 year of age and older who have low-grade glioma with a BRAF V600E mutation and require systemic therapy.
Maternal infections, especially genital and urinary tract infections, during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of childhood leukemia in offspring, a study suggests.
Increasing social vulnerability is associated with significant decreases in surveillance and survival time among pediatric patients with head and neck cancers.