Department of Pediatrics and Biomedical Resource Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226; Children’s Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226; Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Fund Research Center, Milwaukee, WI 53226; Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849; Department of Medical...

The majority of children with cancer live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with little or no access to cancer treatment. The purpose of the paper is to describe the current status of childhood cancer treatment in Africa, as documented in publications, dedicated websites and information collected through surveys. Successful twinning programmes, like those in Malawi and Cameroon, as we...

abnormalities of the thyroid gland are among the most frequent endocrine complications observed in childhood cancer survivors. we report an 11 years old girl who developed central hypothyroidism and acth deficiency during the chemotherapy for cns relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia before receiving radiotherapy. keywords: thyroid gland, hypothyroidism, chemotherapy, acute lymphoblastic leuk...

Parental exposure to pesticides may contribute to childhood cancer risk. Through the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective study of pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina, we examined childhood cancer risk and associations with parental pesticide application. Identifying information for 17,357 children of Iowa pesticide applicators was provided by parents via questionnaires (1993-1...

This case-control study in Shiraz aimed to determine the relationship between parental smoking and childhood cancer. A questionnaire was completed by the mothers of 98 children newly diagnosed with cancer before the age of 14 years and 100 age- and sex-matched controls. Maternal smoking (prior to and during pregnancy and after the birth), and the numbers of maternal cigarettes smoked were not a...

Background: Leukemia is the most common cancer in children. We aimed to evaluate the association between exposure to magnetic fields and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods: In this overview,the relevant articles evaluating the association between exposure to magnetic fields...

BACKGROUND Childhood cancer is rare, but there are now good survival prospects and in the UK approximately 1 in 1,000 young adults is a survivor of childhood cancer. There are many adverse health outcomes associated with the treatment of childhood cancer often arising several years after completion of treatment. The aim of this study was to quantify the long-term clinical follow-up practices co...

BACKGROUND The relationship of childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) to adult cancer has been inconsistent in the literature and there has been no review summarising the current evidence focused solely on cancer outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a rapid review of the literature, which identified 22 publications from 13 studies, primarily in the UK and northern European countries tha...

Background The impact of cancer therapy on the reproductive potential of patients is increasingly recognized because survival rates of patients have clearly improved in recent years. The study stressed the use of AMH may allow better prediction of chemotherapy-related risk to further fertility. MaterialsAndMethods A narrative review was performed within articles published at PubMed, Elsevier, S...