News & Updates

Assorted news from the last week: A recent student from the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Study that indicates that sixty‐four percent of survivors reported worrying about subsequent malignancy, that 45% reported worrying about physical problems related to cancer, and that 33% reported worrying about relapse. This Journal of Clinical Oncology article addresses neurocognitive late effects in pediatric cancer survivors and explores five broad intervention domains:  compensatory methods, pharmacologic interventions, in-person cognitive remediation, computerized approaches, and physical activity interventions. Treatment with an oncolytic immunovirotherapy alone or with radiation appeared safe and effective in a phase I study of children and adolescents with [...] Read more

Assorted news from the last week: CNN reporter and recently bereaved dad writes:  the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0 would take money from pharmaceutical companies that behave badly and use it to pay for desperately needed pediatric disease research. The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) Designations for a radiopharmaceutical for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, the clinical management of pediatric patients with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). End-of-Life Care:  A Conversation Recent research tested the efficacy and feasibility of bright light therapy on adolescent cancer survivors. Oncology Nursing [...] Read more