Assorted news from the last week: Jared Isaacman, 37-year-old founder of Shift4 Payments, is chartering a SpaceX trip to orbit and raffling a seat to a random winner to raise money for childhood cancer research. World Health Organization issued new guidelines on the management of chronic pain in children provide […]
Assorted news from the last week: Sadly, as the 2020 Childhood Cancer Prevention Report confirms, childhood cancer incidence rates, the number of new cases per 1,000 children, have steadily increased over the last few decades across all racial/ethnic groups. Cancer is now responsible for more than half of all childhood […]
Assorted news from the last two weeks: FDA approval of Pfizer’s XALKORI® (crizotinib) is a major milestone in the treatment of children and young adults with ALK-positive Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Researchers at Uppsala University have investigated the socioeconomic impact on parents of having a child diagnosed with cancer: mothers’ […]
By: Hilary Woo, Dietetic Intern, Texas Woman’s University Fighting with food has been a motto that I’ve had ever since deciding to pursue a career as a registered dietitian. In fact, the moment I decided to be a dietitian was during a volunteer program in high school at the MD Anderson Cancer […]
Assorted news from the last two weeks: NCI unveiled two new resources for young people with cancer: tips to help young people facing end-of-life decisions talk with their doctors and make choices about palliative care, advance directives, living wills, and how they want to be remembered. resource to help young people […]
Assorted news from the last week: Give Kids the World is reopening on Jan 17, 2021. Here’s a video they’ve prepared as part of their announcement. COVID19 disrupting pediatric cancer treatments all over, but especially in places like Uganda, where disruption in treatment can be deadly. End-of Year Advocacy Update: […]
Assorted news from the last week: Nature reports that children with cancer with SARS-CoV-2 infection do not appear at increased risk of severe infection compared to the general paediatric population. This is reassuring and supports the continued delivery of standard treatment. Covid-19 surge could lead to another drop in patient […]
Assorted news from the last week: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation used Amazon Web Services grant to put 756 terabytes of cancer research data in the cloud to clean up medical research data and build a pipeline of analysis expertise among cancer researchers. Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc. has received U.S. Food and […]