Blood cancer (leukemia) is the most common childhood cancer. Early diagnosis through simple blood tests can save lives, but lack of awareness delays treatment. TheHealthSite.com ...

Two years ago, Lianna Munir started spiking fevers and having fainting spells. At first doctors thought Munir, then 6, may have strep or a viral infection. But even after multiple trips to the ...

Survival rates for childhood leukemia are improving thanks to new treatments. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia has the highest survival among all pediatric cancers, 80-85 percent. Seattle Children’s ...

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The classification of AML is based on the French-American-British system in which morphologic and immunophenotypic features of blast cells divide AML into 8 distinct subtypes labeled M0-M7. M3 is the ...

New research on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) shows that the longer a patient's body mass index (BMI) falls within the overweight/obese category during treatment, the ...

Childhood cancers can be challenging to detect, because their early symptoms are often similar to those of normal childhood ...

Treatment modifications and mortality among female patients with subsequent breast cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). Accelerated aging among survivors of childhood ...

A new study found that children diagnosed with a form of leukemia between 2002 to 2019, during Colorado’s hydraulic fracturing boom, were more likely to live near oil and gas well sites than children ...

One of the greatest medical success stories in recent years is the successful treatment of acute leukemia in children. Just a few decades ago, mortality was universal. Now, survival has improved to ...