Oncology
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Skills training improves psychosocial outcomes for young cancer patients
Developing skills in stress management, goal setting, positive reframing, and benefit finding led to improved psychosocial outcomes over standard...
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Cardio-oncology booms but awareness lags
As cancer treatment options expand, so do their cardiac effects, and everyone caring for patients should be aware of them.
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Study shows childhood IBD increased cancer risk in adulthood
Childhood inflammatory bowel disease was associated with significant increases in the risk of cancer in later life.
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Severe health conditions decline in childhood cancer survivors
CHICAGO – Certain types of severe morbidity have steadily declined in childhood cancer survivors.
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VIDEO: Childhood cancer survivors living longer with fewer severe health problems
Steady improvements seen in participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
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Oral HPV infections sharply lower for vaccinated youth
HPV vaccination appears to confer a high level of protection against oral infection with oncogenic virus types.
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Two-dose HPV vaccine trials in teens show effective immunological responses
Are two doses of HPV vaccine as effective as three doses?
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MRD better measure of ALL remission than morphology
MONTREAL – Minimal residual disease is better than morphology at determining remission in acute lymphoblastic leukemia remission, but using both...
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Routine surveillance adds cost but little benefit following a pediatric tumor
MONTREAL – It can be a tough sell to worried patients or their caregivers, but surveillance imaging in children with a history of some treated...
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Treatment-related hypertension, kidney injury are undertreated in kids with leukemia
MONTREAL – Chemotherapy-related hypertension and acute kidney injury can go unrecognized in children and young adults with ALL and AML.
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Prognostic tool may allow tailored therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma
A newly developed “robust and inexpensive” prognostic tool may allow more tailored therapy for youth with intermediate-risk Hodgkin lymphoma.