CAC2 Childhood Cancer Community News Digest (October 5-11)
Assorted news from the last week: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have genetically modified human
Assorted news from the last week: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have genetically modified human
Assorted news from the last week: Twenty percent of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines go on to suffer heart failure later in life. Dr.
Assorted news from the last week: In a Swedish study of how families in pediatric oncology experienced illness‐related information and communication with professionals and within the
Assorted news from the last week: A study by a French research team found “that treatment with growth hormones is not associated with an increased

By CAC2 Member Bob Piniewski, People Against Childhood Cancer Childhood cancer statistics, like all statistics (1), can be confusing. Any statistic can be used to
Assorted news from the last week: Camp Okizu at Berry Creek, a camp for pediatric cancer patients and their families, sustained significant damage in California’s

By CAC2 Member Mariah Forster Olson, Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Society As a long-term childhood cancer survivor with numerous late effects, I have had 39 years

Survivorship Matters Blog By CAC2 Member Mary Beth Collins My introduction to the idea of prevention and childhood cancer didn’t come from a yearning for

By CAC2 Member Cesare Spadoni (aPODD). “Pharma and biotech companies do not develop drugs for kids with cancer!” How many times have we heard these

I frequently speak of viewing childhood cancer like a bicycle wheel with multiple spokes emanating from the hub in the center. Each spoke represents a