In India, childhood cancer is highly curable. However, for thousands of families, the fight is lost not inside hospital walls, but outside them - to costs, distance, hunger and lack of support.
Every year, an estimated 400,000 children worldwide develop a form of cancer. Five-year survival rates in high-income nations are typically over 80%, with an expected cure rate of near 100% for some ...
With the launch of St. Jude Global, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has set an ambitious goal to cure at least 60 percent of children with the most common cancers worldwide by 2030. By sharing ...
When Jason Winkle’s son Micah was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma at age 9 in 2015, everything around the family seemed to shift at once — new information, new decisions, and a rapid immersion into the ...
Brain cancer has left Tayden Ybarra, 16, legally blind in her left eye, says her mother, Tammy Ybarra. “She doesn’t see side to side, up, down, only like a pinpoint in the front.” At school, bullies ...
Introduction Cancer care in humanitarian settings is very challenging, and patients may face significant barriers to ...
Emily Bhatnagar’s father was diagnosed with cancer when she was 17. She started a book drive in his honor called For Love & ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that the White House says will use artificial intelligence to transform the way scientists fight childhood cancer. However, the move comes amid ...
The pediatric cancer community was "devastated" after a flurry of bills that would have reauthorized funding for pediatric cancer research were pulled from a spending bill this week, Nancy Goodman, ...
When the Connecticut boy learned what his diagnosis was, he immediately thought about how he could help other children in similar situations.