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Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials
Slashdot - Jun 29, 2008
In the 60's your child's chance of long term cancer free survival was less than 10%. Today, your child's chance of long term cancer free survival is in the ...
Putting treatments for kids with cancer on the fast track
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jun 29, 2008
Last week, the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Foundation contributed $5 million to researchers at the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at ...
Women undergoing chemo can freeze eggs for future
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Jun 30, 2008
Nationwide, as cancer survival rates improve and more women delay childbearing, fertility clinics have reached out to any woman who can pay the average ...
Hart to Heart: Fund research for childhood cancer
Savannah Morning News, GA - Jun 28, 2008
She was in DC with her 7-year-old son, Paul, to urge the Senate to support crucial landmark legislation to fund childhood cancer research. ...
Relay money comes back to the area
Pottstown Mercury, PA -
The money will be used for a variety of programs, among them are programs that will benefit children's cancer research and care. ...
Doctors missing vital signs of child brain cancer
Times Online, UK - Jun 24, 2008
Every year 6500 people have brain cancer diagnosed and 3400 lose their lives to a brain tumour - but survival rates have barely improved over the past 30 ...
One Million New Skin Cancer Cases Expected In USA This Year
Medical News Today, UK - Jun 30, 2008
According to the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), there will be approximately one million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the United States in ...
Why are our schools full of deadly asbestos and why isn't anything ...
Daily Mail, UK -
This is a highly aggressive cancer of the lung lining caused by exposure to asbestos. Mesothelioma is not the same as cancer of the lung; this can also be ...
Author : Children's Brain Tumor Foundation
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 20 minutes ago
While overall cancer death rates have been dropping since the early 1990s, children's brain and spinal cord tumors are still the deadliest childhood cancer. ...
Going the Distance for Kids With Cancer
FOXBusiness - Jun 27, 2008
... explains, "We call brain and spinal cord tumors the toughest children's cancer. While the survival rates of other pediatric cancers have, thankfully, ...
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Childhood cancer survival in Europe -
G Gatta, I Corazziari, C Magnani, R Peris-Bonet, P … - Annals of Oncology, 2003 - Eur Soc Med Oncology
... Childhood cancer survival in Europe ... These publications revealed large differences
in childhood cancer survival between different European populations. ...

Childhood cancer. -
RW Miller, JL Young Jr, B Novakovic - Cancer, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... of soft tissue sarcoma. Five forms of childhood cancer had a 5-year relative
survival rate of 85% or better. Of the cancers with ...

Cancer incidence, survival, and mortality for children younger than age 15 years.
JL Young Jr, LG Ries, E Silverberg, JW Horm, RW … - Cancer, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Incidence and survival data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance ... Childhood
cancer incidence rates have remained relatively stable over the last ...

Improvements in survival from childhood cancer: results of a population based survey over 30 years -
JM Birch, HB Marsden, PHM Jones, D Pearson, V … - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1988 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... 1975 Nov;87(5):815?818. [PubMed]; McWhirter WR, Siskind V. Childhood cancer survival
trends in Queensland 1956-80. Br J Cancer. 1984 Apr;49(4):513?519. ...

[CITATION] … report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2001, with a special feature regarding survival -
A Jemal, LX Clegg, E Ward, LAG Ries, X Wu, PM … - Cancer, 2004
... The site/histology cate- gories presented for childhood survival are based on site ...
is not equiva- lent to the International Classification of Childhood Cancer. ...

… Mortality Experience in Five-Year Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer: The Childhood Cancer … -
AC Mertens, Y Yasui, JP Neglia, JD Potter, ME … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2001 - jco.ascopubs.org
... Arch Dis Child 65: 1356-1363, 1990[Abstract]; Robertson CM, Hawkins MM, Kingston
JE: Late deaths and survival after childhood cancer: Implications for cure. ...

EUROCARE-3 summary: cancer survival in Europe at the end of the 20th century -
MP Coleman, G Gatta, A Verdecchia, J Esteve, M … - Annals of Oncology, 2003 - Eur Soc Med Oncology
... exist between western and eastern European countries [9]. ? International variation
in childhood cancer survival within Europe is also marked [15, 16]. ...

[CITATION] US childhood cancer survival, 1973-1987 -
B Novakovic - Med Pediatr Oncol, 1994
... 1994) US Childhood Cancer Survival, 1973-1 987 Biljana Novakovic, MD The ... 20892.
Page 2. US Childhood Cancer Survival, 1973-1987 481 TABLE ...

[BOOK] The Damocles Syndrome: Psychosocial Consequences of Surviving Childhood Cancer
GP Koocher, JE O'Malley - 1981 - McGraw-Hill Companies

Late deaths and survival after childhood cancer: implications for cure. -
CM Robertson, MM Hawkins, JE Kingston - BMJ, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1994 Jul 16;309(6948):162-6. Click here to read Late deaths and survival after
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Childhood cancer survival linked to suicidality

 
 

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A "significant proportion" of survivors of childhood cancers have suicidal thoughts or have actually attempted suicide many years after treatment, a survey shows. Cancer survivors with pain and physical changes are particularly vulnerable.

The survey of 226 adult survivors of childhood found that 29 -- nearly 13 percent -- reported "suicidality." Nineteen reported suicidal thoughts alone; one had attempted suicide in the past but wasn't currently having suicidal thoughts; and nine reported both current suicidal ideation and past attempts.

"Although the vast majority of survivors reported no suicidality, the significant minority of survivors with thoughts of ending their lives is a serious concern," write Dr. Christopher J. Recklitis from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston-based colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Previous studies have shown a temporary rise in suicidal thoughts among cancer patients in the months after receiving a diagnosis of cancer. The new survey is the first to show a significant level of suicidal thoughts many years or even decades after treatment for childhood cancers, the investigators say.

The men and women surveyed were an average of 28 years old and had survived a range of childhood cancers including lymphomas, leukemias, sarcomas, and Wilms' tumor, but not brain tumors, and were interviewed an average of 18 years after their initial diagnosis.

Identified risk factors for suicidal symptoms in cancer survivors included pain, poor physical function and changes in appearance.

"The association with physical health and pain is important," write the authors, "because these represent potentially treatable conditions for which survivors may seek follow up care."

Also, only 11 of the 29 with suicidal thoughts and behaviors were significantly depressed by standard measures, suggesting that doctors need to do more than just ask cancer survivors about depression to identify those who may be suicidal.

SOURCE: Journal of Clinical Oncology, August 20, 2006.

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