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Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover clinical trials
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Experts offer guidance for preventing drug shortages
with chemotherapy drugs Credit: Bill Branson A group of healthcare experts has created a “blueprint” for managing and preventing drug shortages...
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Cancer doesn’t increase a child’s risk of PTSD
Credit: Bill Branson Childhood cancer patients are no more likely than their healthy peers to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),...
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Music therapy helps AYAs undergoing HSCT
Credit: Chad McNeeley A music therapy intervention can help adolescents and young adults (AYAs) cope with cancer and its treatment, according to...
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Genetic events drive ALL subtype
a patient with ALL Investigators have identified the genetic events leading to leukemic transformation in ETV6-RUNX1 acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
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Pediatricians, cancer groups ask regulators to help cut tobacco use
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Internists may be ill-equipped to care for childhood cancer survivors
Credit: CDC A survey of general internists suggests a few obstacles may prevent these physicians from providing optimal care for childhood cancer...
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Gene panel identifies residual neuroblastoma metastases
Major finding: In a multivariate analysis, patients negative for minimal residual disease had about a fourfold increased rate of progression-free...
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Equipping pediatricians to take on cancer survivor care
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Gene therapy for SCID-X1 may successfully reset immune system
Major finding: Of nine boys with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency who were treated with gene therapy, seven patients have evidence of T-...