Category Archives: Childhood Cancer
Life as a Survivor of a Childhood Brain Tumor or Spinal Cord Tumor
After Treatment The central nervous system—including the brain and the spinal cord—grows and develops very quickly during childhood. This rapid rate of growth and development…
What is the expected life span of Childhood Brain Tumor Cancer?
Brain tumors “What is my child’s prognosis?” This seemingly simple but critical question is often among the first that parents will ask their child’s oncologist…
What are the Signs and Symptoms of Brain Tumors in Children?
Brain Tumors When classed together in a single grouping, cancers in the brain and spinal cord are the second most common type of childhood cancer…
Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Childhood Brain Tumor Cancer
Why do some children develop brain tumors? Any time a child is diagnosed with a brain tumor or other type of cancer, the most obvious…
Childhood Brain Tumor Cancers – Detection and Diagnosis
About Childhood Brain Tumors After leukemia, brain tumors (including spinal cord tumors) are the second-most common type of cancer in children, accounting for about 25%…
American Childhood Cancer Organization Applauds World Health Organization’s New Global Childhood Cancer Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 28, 2018 – Washington, D.C. – The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO), the soleU.S. member of Childhood Cancer International (CCI)…
After Treatment – Living as a Childhood Leukemia Survivor
Living as a Survivor of Childhood Leukemia There are nearly 5,000 new diagnoses of childhood leukemia every year in the United States, making this so-called…
What is the expected lifespan of a child with leukemia?
Childhood leukemia is often pointed to as childhood cancer research’s success story. Just 60 years ago, almost no child with leukemia survived more than a…
Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Childhood Leukemia Cancer
What Causes Childhood Leukemia? Both major types of childhood leukemia—Acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukemia (ALL) and Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)—begin in the bone marrow, the soft…
What are the signs and symptoms of Childhood Leukemia Cancer?
About Childhood Leukemia Cancer Leukemia is the most common form of childhood cancer today, accounting for nearly one-third of all childhood cancer diagnoses in the…