The YMCA of Greater Waukesha County has launched a new program to support families navigating childhood cancer, like the ...

When cancer hits kids, parents are often faced with a horrible choice. Spare them the brutal chemotherapy and radiation and they die. Put them through it and they live — but often at a cost. There’s ...

A history of childhood cancer more than doubled the risk of melanoma and premature death in adults, a large retrospective review showed. Although the absolute risk of melanoma at 40 years was small, ...

Because childhood cancers are rare compared to adult varieties, research on treatments has a funding problem. That's where a ...

Any other cancer where more than three-quarters of patients are cured might seem to be a low research priority — compared to, say, cancers with an approximately 0 percent cure rate, such as adult ...

Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new ...

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