Children are facing an ‘explosion’ in obesity-related cancers thanks to junk food and a lack of exercise, an expert warned last night.
Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones says thousands will die if parents and ministers do not take the childhood obesity epidemic more seriously.
Obesity is linked to cancers including those of the kidney, breast, colon, liver and prostate. [...]
Parents seeking to do as much for a child with childhood leukemia as possible often turn to complementary medicine, this is perhaps the safest form of non standard treatment because it is in addition to not as a substitute for conventional treatment.
As with anything not proven parents who wish to use complementary medicine on thier [...]
Acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer and accounts for about 30% of all childhood cancers.
Wilms tumor is a cancer that may affect one or both kidneys. It is most often found in children between 2 and 3 years old.
Neuroblastoma Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial (outside of the brain) solid [...]
Leukemia is a cancer that occurs in blood cells. There are several types of leukemia and these are classified by how quickly they progress and which cells they affect. Leukemia in children, as in adults, is described in two ways. The types include:
acute (rapidly growing) or
chronic (slowly growing).
Almost all childhood leukemia is acute.
The two main [...]
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. In AML, the bone marrow makes many unformed cells called blasts. Blasts normally develop into white blood cells that fight infection.
However, the blasts are abnormal in AML. They do not develop and cannot fight infections. The bone marrow may also make [...]
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), also known as acute lymphocytic leukemia, is a cancer of the white blood cells, characterised by the overproduction and continuous multiplication of malignant and immature white blood cells in the bone marrow.
ALL is a hematological malignancy. It is fatal if left untreated as ALL spreads into the bloodstream and other vital [...]
Pharmaceutical company EpiCept Corp. (EPCT) said the U.S. FDA indicated that the company had necessary pivotal data to file a New Drug Application, or NDA, for Ceplene in combination with interleukin-2 as a remission maintenance treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.
The company noted that at a pre-NDA meeting last week, the U.S. regulatory body issued guidance [...]
Improved survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Progression-free survival was improved in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who receive the combination of rituximab, fludarabine, and cyclophosphamide. Results of the phase III REACH study demonstrated a median improvement in progression-free survival of 10 months when compared with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide alone. In addition, complete response rates [...]
Biologically based therapies use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins.
Examples include dietary supplements, herbal products, and the use of other so-called “natural” therapies ( example, using shark cartilage to treat cancer).
Herbal Medicine, the oldest known form of health care, uses plants to treat disease and promote health. Either a single herb [...]
When a child develops leukemia parents are often at a loss as to what to do. Many parents decide that in addition to standard medical treatments they will have their child follow a course of alternative medical treatment.
This article gives a general overview of alternative medical treatment. The principles are the same whether the patients [...]
