Childhood Brain Cancer
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Doctors Emphasise Early Detection And Specialised Care To Improve Childhood Cancer Survival Rates
Doctors emphasised that timely diagnosis and proper treatment can save over 80 per cent of children affected by cancer.
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Persistent Fever, Weight Loss, Lumps: Childhood Cancer Warning Signs Parents Miss
Cancer is a leading cause of death for children and adolescents. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 4,00,000 children and adolescents develop cancer each year across the globe.
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Combined Drug Therapy Shows Promise Against Aggressive Childhood Brain Cancer: Study
A team of Australian researchers has tested a new way of treating childhood brain cancer by combining two medicines in lab studies.
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: All You Need To Know About Pediatric Cancer
As per WHO, The most common types of childhood cancers include leukemias, brain cancers, lymphomas and solid tumours.
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World Cancer Day 2019: What Is Childhood Cancer? What Are The Symptoms? Know All This And More By A Top Oncologist
The common cancers of childhood are blood cancers (leukemia), lymph cancers (lymphoma), brain cancers, muscle/bone cancers (sarcoma) and tumours of kidney (Wilms tumour)
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Toxic Lead: Early Exposure Could be Lowering Childrens IQ
According to a study done by Duke University in North Carolina, higher exposure of lead in childhood may affect brain health and disrupt cognitive development.
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Here's Why Childhood Brain Tumour Survivors Can Be Prone to Heart Diseases
The need to prevent these kids falling prey to other complications becomes extremely crucial.
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Brain Cancer Now Deadliest For US Children: Study
Brain cancer is now the deadliest form of childhood cancer in the United States, surpassing leukemia as treatment advances have allowed doctors to cure many blood-related cancers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
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Childhood Brain Tumour Survivors May Face Mental Issues: Study
Cancer survivors of childhood brain tumours show significant deficits in intelligence, educational achievement and employment, even decades after treatment, reveals a new research.
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Childhood brain cancer and cognitive decline
Childhood brain cancer survivours have ongoing cognitive problems and achieve lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings.
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Prenatal vitamins reduce childhood cancers
Mothers taking multivitamins before and during pregnancy reduce the chances of leukaemia, neuroblastoma and brain tumours in children.
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Infections cause childhood cancer
Scientists find further evidence to suggest that malignant tumours of the brain in childhood could be caused by an infection. According to a report from researchers at the University of Manchester childhood brain tumours occur in clusters over short periods of time which is suggestive of predisposing infections. Between 1954 and 1998 the team stu...
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Virus linked with brain tumour
A virus that commonly lies dormant in children could be responsible in the formation of medulloblastomas, which are fast growing malignant childhood tumours. Some medulloblastomas contain one or two proteins from a virus called the JC virus. Medulloblastomas are the second most common type of brain tumours accounting for approximately 20% of the ...
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Doctors Emphasise Early Detection And Specialised Care To Improve Childhood Cancer Survival Rates
Doctors emphasised that timely diagnosis and proper treatment can save over 80 per cent of children affected by cancer.
-
Persistent Fever, Weight Loss, Lumps: Childhood Cancer Warning Signs Parents Miss
Cancer is a leading cause of death for children and adolescents. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 4,00,000 children and adolescents develop cancer each year across the globe.
-
Combined Drug Therapy Shows Promise Against Aggressive Childhood Brain Cancer: Study
A team of Australian researchers has tested a new way of treating childhood brain cancer by combining two medicines in lab studies.
-
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: All You Need To Know About Pediatric Cancer
As per WHO, The most common types of childhood cancers include leukemias, brain cancers, lymphomas and solid tumours.
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World Cancer Day 2019: What Is Childhood Cancer? What Are The Symptoms? Know All This And More By A Top Oncologist
The common cancers of childhood are blood cancers (leukemia), lymph cancers (lymphoma), brain cancers, muscle/bone cancers (sarcoma) and tumours of kidney (Wilms tumour)
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Toxic Lead: Early Exposure Could be Lowering Childrens IQ
According to a study done by Duke University in North Carolina, higher exposure of lead in childhood may affect brain health and disrupt cognitive development.
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Here's Why Childhood Brain Tumour Survivors Can Be Prone to Heart Diseases
The need to prevent these kids falling prey to other complications becomes extremely crucial.
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Brain Cancer Now Deadliest For US Children: Study
Brain cancer is now the deadliest form of childhood cancer in the United States, surpassing leukemia as treatment advances have allowed doctors to cure many blood-related cancers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
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Childhood Brain Tumour Survivors May Face Mental Issues: Study
Cancer survivors of childhood brain tumours show significant deficits in intelligence, educational achievement and employment, even decades after treatment, reveals a new research.
-
Childhood brain cancer and cognitive decline
Childhood brain cancer survivours have ongoing cognitive problems and achieve lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings.
-
Prenatal vitamins reduce childhood cancers
Mothers taking multivitamins before and during pregnancy reduce the chances of leukaemia, neuroblastoma and brain tumours in children.
-
Infections cause childhood cancer
Scientists find further evidence to suggest that malignant tumours of the brain in childhood could be caused by an infection. According to a report from researchers at the University of Manchester childhood brain tumours occur in clusters over short periods of time which is suggestive of predisposing infections. Between 1954 and 1998 the team stu...
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Virus linked with brain tumour
A virus that commonly lies dormant in children could be responsible in the formation of medulloblastomas, which are fast growing malignant childhood tumours. Some medulloblastomas contain one or two proteins from a virus called the JC virus. Medulloblastomas are the second most common type of brain tumours accounting for approximately 20% of the ...
