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View Post: AJ Sawyer Shares Her Story with CURE « CURE Childhood Cancer
24 Nov 2009 by April Voris  
AJ Sawyer is an adult childhood cancer survivor. Her story is inspiring and provides hope for those still in the midst of their battle with childhood cancer. AJ wanted to share her story with CURE Childhood Cancer in order to encourage those ... I endured surgery and one year of chemotherapy. My mom told me that after my surgery, the surgeon came out with a puzzled look on his face. He said that most Neuroblastoma tumors spread very fast. When he found my tumor, ...
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View Post: Albany Med Unveils Melodies Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood ...
21 Nov 2009 by Sue Ford  
Albany Medical Center announced today that it has renamed the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders the “Melodies Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders” in Honor of the Holiday Concert Series. ... Albany Med's pediatric cancer program employs a multi-disciplinary team consisting of four pediatric hematologist/oncologists, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner, highly trained chemotherapy nurses, a pediatric social worker, and a child life ...
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View Post: Thyroid Cancer a Risk After Childhood Cancer
3 Nov 2009
Right–but this is with regard to radiation therapy for treatment of childhood cancer. Any stats regarding chemotherapy (only) for childhood cancer? My daughter had 2 brain surgeries for recurrent pilocytic astrocytomas, starting at age ...
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View Post: Why Does Cancer Come Out of Remission? - Fighting Cancer with ...
27 Oct 2009 by Dr. Richard Frank  
Childhood leukemias are now over 80% curable because of the use of "multi-agent" chemotherapy in which children are treated with over 5 different types of chemotherapy drugs. Similarly adult lymphomas may be treated with a regimen ...
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View Post: New tools for prediction of disease progression in acute childhood ...
27 Nov 2009
Acute leukemia is the most common form of childhood cancer. The new study shows that DNA methylation is a promising tool for predicting disease progression. DNA methylation is a so-called epigenetic change in the genome. ... Despite recent dramatic improvements in methods of treatment for acute childhood leukemia, certain groups of patients do not respond to chemotherapy and suffer relapses. Human DNA contains tens of millions of bases that can be methylated. ...
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View Post: MARCH FOR A MATTIE MIRACLE ....Mattie's Blog and his Fight against ...
23 hours ago by The Brown Family (DC)  
A bill, sponsored by Rep. Speier has been introduced in the House on April 27, 2009, to improve and enhance research and programs on childhood cancer survivorship. For more information, please visit the link below ... Mattie started chemotherapy on Thursday, August 7, 2008, consisting of several five week cycles containing five types of drugs (Doxorubicin, Cisplatin, high dose Methotrexate, Ifosfamide and Etopicide). After the second cycle Mattie underwent a surgery ( Oct. ...
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View Post: NDCA » Study finds no cause for cluster of cancer in Clyde
11 Nov 2009 by Terry  
State environmental and health officials acknowledged yesterday they are no closer to determining the cause of the childhood cancer cluster in the vicinity of Clyde, Ohio, and conceded in a new report it “is possible that a cause may never be ... “They're running out of places to look,” said Dave Hisey, whose son Tanner, 11, is among the area children being treated for cancer. The boy got his latest chemotherapy treatment injected through his spine yesterday at Mercy St. ...
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View Post: Bankix Systems Blog: Many Childhood Cancer Survivors Have ...
10 Oct 2009 by Bankix Systems Blog  
Chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgery for cancer may affect the future reproduction of patients with childhood cancers, according to background information in the articles. As the number of young cancer survivors increases, ...
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View Post: Childhood Cancer
11 Nov 2009 by Health very improtent your life  
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Systemic chemotherapy is delivered through the bloodstream, targeting cancer cells throughout the body. The side effects of chemotherapy depend on the individual and the dose used, ...
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View Post: Suzanne Somers speaks out against the conventional cancer industry ...
18 Nov 2009 by Dave Smith  
“There are only three kinds of cancer that respond to chemotherapy: Testicular cancer, childhood leukemia, some lymphomas including Non-Hodgkin's,” she says. “For all of us who have raised money marching, going to black-tie fundraisers, ...
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