Tag: Cancer In Children

Childhood cancers rank ninth as a leading cause of childhood diseases at the global level, accounting for 11.5 million of the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs).

New York: Is your child having a tough time sleeping properly? You may need to keep a check on his/her body mass index (BMI) as a new research suggests that there is a co-relation between the two and can lead to cancer in adulthood. “Childhood obesity very often leads to adult obesity. This puts them […]

London: Using a computer algorithm, researchers have identified a promising new treatment for neuroblastoma– a form of cancer in children, which occurs in specialised nerve cells in the sympathetic nervous system and may be life-threatening. In the long term the discovery, published in the journal Nature Communications, may result in a new form of treatment for […]