Teen with cancer can forgo chemotherapy
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A 16-year-old cancer patient 's legal fight ended in victory Wednesday when his family's attorneys and social services officials reached an agreement that would allow him to forgo chemotherapy.
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Children battling cancer may also have weaker bones, new research shows.
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Abdominal pain in an adolescent girl can have a simple common explanation, but it cannot be taken for granted as a simple question.
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Report Simona Torretta helped Iraqi teenager go to Italy to get treated for leukemia in a Rome hospital. ROME - An Iraqi teenager who was treated for leukemia in a Rome hospital owes her life to aid worker
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MONDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- Kids undergoing chemotherapy for the most common form of childhood leukemia have significant reductions in their antioxidant and micronutrient levels, which could lead to bad side effects from the treatment.
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Many cancer survivors say they are committed to helping others with the disease or to solve a particular problem that they encountered in their own treatment.
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When teenager Nicole Agostino was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year, the hospital where she was treated was full of children and coloring books.
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The New York LifeLab is one of several groups that have sprung up to address the unique needs of young adults who have survived cancer.
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Dec. 6, 2004 (San Diego) -- A new generation of medications to treat leukemia is wiping out cancer in people who fail to benefit from the blockbuster drug Gleevec, researchers say.
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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TUESDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- A still-small but growing number of teens are undergoing bariatric surgery, which reduces the size of the stomach, to treat obesity.
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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Beverly Castriotta lost her husband to cancer two years ago. Her 12-year-old son, Joey, and his soccer teammates are doing their best to help prevent other youngsters from losing loved ones to deadly diseases.
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Teenagers who&#39;ve survived  childhood cancers may be more likely than their siblings to be  depressed or anxious, have attention problems or show  antisocial behaviors, researchers report.
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Concerns about infertility resulting from breast cancer therapy influenced treatment decisions in nearly one-third of young patients, according to a study published in the Oct.
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Many breast cancer patients 70 and older could safely forgo radiation therapy, which has been the standard treatment after lumpectomy, a study out today says.
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Kids undergoing chemotherapy for the most common form of childhood leukemia have significant reductions in their antioxidant and micronutrient levels, which could lead to bad side effects from the treatment.