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arrow More Than A Million Parents With Minor Children Are Cancer Survivors

Updated: 20-08-2010
In the first ever published estimate of the percentage and number of cancer survivors who live with their minor children, a team led by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher found that millions of cancer survivors are parenting young children, highlighting
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arrow Proton Therapy Carries Precise, Potent Punch Against Children's Cancers

Updated: 20-08-2010
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announces the availability of proton therapy, a precise form of cancer radiation that offers potentially life-changing benefits to children with brain tumors and other solid tumors. The Hospital's Cancer Center has recently begun
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arrow Children Find Ways To Cope With Cancer

Updated: 2-08-2010
More than 12,000 children under the age of 20 are diagnosed with cancer each year. Although these children and their parents undergo a tremendous amount of stress during this time, researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that most children are able to cope with their diagnosis without experiencing high levels of depression or anxiety.
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arrow 545 children with cancer

Updated: 2-08-2010
KUCHING: A total of 545 cancer cases among children aged 12 and below were reported in Sarawak from 1997 to 2010.Sarawak Children's Cancer Society (SCCS) vice-president Wong Kok Ping said an average of 70 new cases per year was reported among children, with leukaemia topping the list.He said that as childhood cancer was
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arrow Making Blood Genotyping More Widely Available

Updated: 29-07-2010
Scientists are reporting an advance toward enabling more blood banks to adopt so-called "extended blood group typing," which increases transfusion safety by better matching donors and recipients. Their report on a new, automated genetic method for determining a broader range of blood types appears in ACS' Analytical
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arrow 'Missing Silencer' Can Trigger Leukaemia

Updated: 29-07-2010
A completely new mechanism that leads to the development of a certain type of leukaemia could eventually be targeted by new treatments, according to research published in Nature Immunology 1.Researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, the BBSRC and the Medical Research Council, discovered that when two genes are missing from mice they develop an aggressive form of leukaemia,
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arrow Researchers Find Leukemia Cells Metabolize Fat to Avoid Cell Death

Updated: 19-02-2010
Leukemia cells, like most cancers, are addicted to glucose to generate their energy, but new research shows for the first time that these cells also rely on fatty acid metabolism to grow and to evade cell death.Inhibiting fatty acid oxidation makes leukemia cells vulnerable to drugs that force them to commit suicide, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and The University
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arrow Leukaemia cell 'breakthrough' offers treatment hope

Updated: 19-02-2010
Scientists believe they have made an important breakthrough in attempts to treat a form of childhood leukaemia. In mice tests, Australian researchers found that a cell, which plays a key role in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, survives radiotherapy. The Melbourne University team believes targeting this cell may help to stop this disease returning, but they warned much more research was needed.

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