September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that ...

Every parent knows that feeling. Your child seems a little off. Not quite themselves. Maybe they’re more tired than usual or have a bruise that appeared out of nowhere. Most of the time, it’s nothing ...

Circumstantial and direct evidence, including a review of twin and backtracking studies, demonstrate potential prenatal development of acute childhood leukemias. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and ...

For every possible cause of childhood leukemia pain, your child’s team of doctors and healthcare providers has a way to manage it. This year, about 15,000 parents will learn that their child or teen ...

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare but aggressive childhood leukemia. While hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is curative for some patients, approximately half of all patients see ...

Each year, around 4,000 children are living with leukemia, according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The outlook for kids with this cancer has improved dramatically over the years, thanks in ...

Review finds childhood cancer rates, including leukemias and brain cancers, are disproportionately higher with exposure to ...

A population-based Quebec birth cohort (n=824,414) captured 1,535 cancers, including 465 leukemias and 359 ALL cases, with most diagnoses occurring at ages 0–4 years. Proximity measures showed the ...