Exposure to petrol compounds appears to be associated with an increased risk of childhood leukemia, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a systematic review ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado physicians helped research a new treatment protocol for the most common form of childhood cancer that has “instantly” changed how doctors treat ...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in children, although it is rare. It begins in the bone marrow and rapidly progresses. Long-term survival rates exceed 90%, but ...

A new study found that children diagnosed with a form of leukemia between 2002 to 2019, during Colorado’s hydraulic fracturing boom, were more likely to live near oil and gas well sites than children ...

Semi-structured interviews with children with ALL revealed a desire for clinicians to tell them about their disease directly in age-appropriate language.

Fifth-grader Levi Buxman of Wooster has amassed more than 4,000 beads signifying various aspects of treatment for B-cell ...

In the past, when I’d hear the words childhood leukemia, I’d picture a young child who suddenly became seriously ill, and whose parents were told their child had only a few years to live. I’d wonder ...

This story is sponsored by UtahRadon.org. While radon gas is known to cause lung cancer, an 18-year, 700-plus county study from Oregon State University found a link between exposure to radon gas and ...

Children born by planned C-section have an increased risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) later in life. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet.

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different outcomes: it depends on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Your son has a fifty-fifty chance to live.” I don’t have children of my own, so it’s hard to imagine how a parent responds to ...