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Proton Therapy Beneficial for Children with Cancer

Posted 01-28-2010 at 03:42 PM by admin
January 27, 2010 11:11 AM Eastern Time

ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City Treating Pediatric Patients

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children with cancer are now being accepted for treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma, where a wide range of tumors are treated with proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.

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Child cancer survivors have higher heart risk-study

Posted 12-09-2009 at 05:16 PM by admin
Kate Kelland
LONDON
Tue Dec 8, 2009 7:37pm EST

LONDON (Reuters) - Children and young people who survive cancer have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease as young adults because of the cancer treatment they received, researchers said Wednesday.

A study by doctors from the United States found that young adult survivors of childhood cancer are at risk of a range of cardiac problems such as heart failure, heart attacks, or heart disease and the...
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CyberKnife to be Focus of Numerous Presentations at the ASTRO Annual Meeting

Posted 11-03-2009 at 02:47 PM by admin
CyberKnife to be Focus of Numerous Presentations at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that 28 CyberKnife-focused abstracts have been accepted as part of the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), taking place November 1 - 5 in Chicago, Illinois. This represents a 27...
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Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry

Posted 10-13-2009 at 04:56 PM by admin
Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:51pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The scars of childhood cancer may go beyond the physical: Adults who survived cancer as children may have lower-than-average likelihood of getting married, a new study suggests.

Childhood cancer survivors are known to be at risk of long-term health effects from their cancer treatment -- including hormone deficiencies, learning impairments and elevated risks of a second cancer or heart disease in adulthood.
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Pesticides blamed for some childhood brain cancers.

Posted 04-10-2009 at 08:46 PM by admin
Environmental Health News


Shim Y, SP Mlynarek and E van Wijngaarden. Parental exposure to pesticides and childhood brain cancer: United States Atlantic Coast Childhood Brain Cancer Study. Environmental Health Perspectives doi:10.1289/ehp.0800209.
Synopsis by Heather Hamlin

Little is known conclusively about what causes brain cancer in children, but research studies are consistently finding links to prebirth pesticide exposure.

A new study finds...
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