For every possible cause of childhood leukemia pain, your child’s team of doctors and healthcare providers has a way to manage it. This year, about 15,000 parents will learn that their child or teen ...

Every parent knows that feeling. Your child seems a little off. Not quite themselves. Maybe they’re more tired than usual or have a bruise that appeared out of nowhere. Most of the time, it’s nothing ...

Gertrude B. Elion, a chemist working in the research laboratories of Burroughs Wellcome, revolutionized childhood cancer ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado physicians helped research a new treatment protocol for the most common form of childhood cancer that has “instantly” changed how doctors treat ...

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that ...

Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children and adolescents. Little is known about how the disease is caused, but previous studies have indicated a link between leukemia and maternal ...

Treatments for childhood leukemia have made great progress. Today, more than 90 percent of children who are diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) — the most common type of childhood ...

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare but aggressive childhood leukemia. While hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is curative for some patients, approximately half of all patients see ...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in children, although it is rare. It begins in the bone marrow and rapidly progresses. Long-term survival rates exceed 90%, but ...

Circumstantial and direct evidence, including a review of twin and backtracking studies, demonstrate potential prenatal development of acute childhood leukemias. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and ...