No parent wants to see their child get sick. And while cases of the flu or a cold are normal, some children get a very troubling diagnosis of childhood leukemia. Leukemia is a common type of childhood ...

Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children and adolescents. Little is known about how the disease is caused, but previous studies have indicated a link between leukemia and maternal ...

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 ...

A new large-scale study led by UC Davis Health and UC San Francisco researchers assessed the risks of leukemia in children with Down syndrome. It pointed to stronger than expected associations between ...

New insights explaining why some children have a longer remission than others after having cutting-edge CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia have been revealed by researchers at UCL, Great Ormond Street ...

An innovative immunotherapy combination has shown a stunning 99% response rate in children with relapsed leukemia. The phase 2 trial, run jointly between researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sending children to day-care at an early age could protect them against leukemia, perhaps by exposing them to certain infections, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Sign up here.

Asking about someone’s age is a well-known taboo. Unless, of course, you are asking a child. Then the topic of age is one that frequently brings joy and a sense of pride with each passing year. In ...

Leukemia is cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Instead of making healthy blood cells on a steady schedule, the marrow ...