Childhood cancer survivors at risk of 2nd cancer
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NEW YORK  - Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk of developing a second malignancy - specifically, cancer of the connective tissues, such as bone or muscle, researchers report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Survivors of pediatric cancer face nine times the normal risk for developing a sarcoma at least five years after treatment for the initial cancer, a new study reveals.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- For cancer survivors, exercising and maintaining a healthy weight are important factors in preventing malignancy's return, at least for some forms of the disease.
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Babies who are breastfed have a lower risk of developing childhood leukemia, according to a new analysis of 14 studies by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Preschool attendance appears to lower the risk of Hodgkin's disease in young adults, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
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A substantial minority of young  adults who have survived a childhood malignancy will have at  least one severe health problem, according to a report  presented here Tuesday at a media briefing of the Journal of  the American Medical Association.
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U.S. investigators have found that children who ate oranges and bananas or drank orange juice most days of the week before age 2 were significantly less likely than other children to be diagnosed with leukemia before age 14.
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PARIS  - The chances of surviving childhood cancer have risen dramatically in Europe, although there remains a big gap between East and West and incidence of the disease appears to be rising, a study said.
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MONDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Having had cancer as children increased the risk among surviving adult women for breast cancer, particularly those who were treated with chest radiation, a new study says.
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NEW YORK  - An analysis of the results of several studies confirm previous reports suggesting that chemotherapy offers little or no survival benefits for young women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers and, if given, it should not be the sole second-phase, or "adjuvant" therapy.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- University of Utah researchers have identified some of the genetic events that cause a particularly deadly childhood muscle cancer,
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Certain treatments may affect  the scholastic achievement of childhood leukemia survivors,  Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.  However, many of these treated children do not appear to be  disadvantaged.
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Patients showing signs of heart disease are at nearly double the risk of also having colon cancer, perhaps because unhealthy habits and inflammation are at the root of both, researchers said on Tuesday.
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WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Changes in two genes that activate the immune system after tissue damage may increase lung cancer risk, researchers report.
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Even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers said. A study based in Iceland, where scientists have access to unique family tree
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NEW YORK  - The radiation therapy that is currently used to treat Hodgkin's lymphoma is expected to reduce the rate of second cancers substantially, although the risk will vary considerably among individual patients, according to a new report in the medical journal Cancer.
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NEW YORK  - Preschool attendance appears to  lower the risk of Hodgkin's disease in young adults, according  to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.