Health problems follow childhood cancer survivors
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NEW YORK  - 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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Cancer doesn't doom youngsters to a miserable childhood, new research suggests, finding that after treatment, many are just as happy and well-adjusted as those who never had the illness &#151; sometimes even more.
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DISTANT relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers say. Scientists looked at the family tree of about 32,000 patients
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NEW YORK  - Children who are overweight  appear to be at increased risk of cancer later in life,  according to an analysis of British records.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Cancer survivors often don't receive necessary medical care for health problems that are not related to their cancer.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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Overweight children are stigmatized by their peers as early as age 3 and even face bias from their parents and teachers, giving them a quality of life comparable to people with cancer, a new analysis concludes.
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Cancer can really mess up a person's  life, even years after he or she has beaten the disease, U.S.  researchers reported on Tuesday.
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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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Staying slim and fit is especially important for cancer survivors, because obesity raises the risk of cancer coming back, the American Cancer Society said in new guidelines issued on Wednesday.
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Federal researchers have found children involved in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more prone to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn the reasons why.
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Many children with chronic medical conditions such as cancer and cystic fibrosis may be taking dietary supplements that are not part of their prescribed treatment, a new survey shows.
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In a new report, Harvard researchers sound the alarm about the poor health of American kids. How asthma, obesity and other problems could plague them for the rest of their lives.
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Children with cancer are more  likely than other children to have a variety of deformities,  such as droopy eyelids and legs of different lengths, new  research shows. This suggests that there are genetic defects or  early prenatal environmental factors that influence the  occurrence of both problems.
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Children who have undergone chemotherapy for cancer are likely to lose immunity to common infections provided by previous vaccinations, Italian researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Children being treated for  acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) seem more able to deal with  their treatment if their levels of antioxidants don't drop too  much, new study findings suggest.
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When a person is first  diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may  suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer  work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study  findings show.