Leukemia

CURE chooses the winning essay for it 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.

Reorienting kids to their academic and social lives after cancer.

The risk of secondary cancers in childhood cancer survivors and what survivors can do to protect themselves.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's "First Connection" program connects volunteers with newly diagnosed patients and caregivers to help them manage the many aspects of a cancer diagnosis.

Childhood cancer survivors skip needed mammograms

Childhood cancer patients make their mark in art exhibit

What I didn't know then about childhood cancer.

Flipping cancer's "off" switch.

News updates from the American Society of Hematology and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

New law funds pediatric cancer research.

Velcade is now available for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients and new drugs emerge as potential treatment to a serious side effect.

Childhood cancer garners sympathy from all, but drug development from few.

Adult cancers are biologically different from childhood cancer, resulting in different treatments and different success rates.

Researchers explore ways to improve drug evaluations in pediatric clinical trials.

Advocates are working together to increase awareness and research in childhood cancers.

Drug development in childhood cancer has picked up the pace in recent years.

Childhood cancer survivors are at higher risk for heart disease.

Discussion of new drugs for CLL and to relieve constipation.

Igniting progress in the cure of children with cancer.

Twins' blood may explain how childhood leukemia develops.

Lu Sipos' Chemo Duck comforts childhood cancer patients.

Preventing misdiagnoses of blood cancers is all in the details.

Recent drug approvals yield a new chemotherapy agent, a first for liver cancer, a safer prevention method, and good news for a drug-resistant cancer.

Blood counts predict leukemia survival and relapse.

Senate passes the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act for research funding.