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Shawn Johnson East Recalls Her 1st ‘Stage Mom’ Moment With Daughter Drew

03.01.2021 Kids Health

Like mother, like daughter? Shawn Johnson East has a lot of cute photos of her daughter, Drew, flooding her social media accounts — including one snap that made the athlete realize her little one might be too young to be a gymnast right now. Rainbow Babies: Stars Who Had Children After Miscarriages During a game of Us Weekly’s “I Can […]

Chemotherapy sometimes set the stage for drug-resistant leukemia at relapse

02.11.2019 Health Problems

Chemotherapy has helped make the most common childhood cancer one of the most curable, but researchers have evidence that the treatment may also prime some patients for relapse. Results published in the journal Blood reported that treatment-induced mutations cause drug resistance in some patients whose acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) returns. “Our study reveals the evolution dynamics of pediatric ALL, which […]

Patients now living a median 6.8 years after stage IV ALK+ lung cancer diagnosis

01.01.2019 Health Problems

According to the National Cancer Institute, patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) between the years 1995 and 2001 had 15 percent chance of being alive 5 years later. For patients with stage IV disease, describing cancer that has spread to distant sites beyond the original tumor, that statistic drops to 2 percent. Now a University of Colorado Cancer […]

The cause of prostate cancer progression to the incurable stage has likely been uncovered

22.07.2018 Health Problems

Researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland have discovered novel genes and mechanisms that can explain how a genomic variant in a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs11672691 influences prostate cancer aggressiveness. Their findings also suggest ways to improve risk stratification and clinical treatment for advanced prostate cancer. The study is published in the journal Cell. Three billion base pairs […]

Study shows a new approach to treating patients with stage IV Wilms tumor

26.04.2018 Health Problems

A new study showing significantly improved survival rates for patients with stage IV Wilms tumors with lung metastases was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The outcomes of the study, “Treatment of Stage IV Favorable Histology Wilms Tumor With Lung Metastases: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group AREN0533 Study”, will be a game-changer in treating Wilms tumor […]