#VisualAbstract: Induction chemotherapy with concurrent chemoradiotherapy may improve survival in intermediate-risk pediatric patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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Tag: pediatric cancer
Shared decision making, options, and trust improve experience for adolescents with cancer
1. More than half of adolescents with cancer desired to make decisions together with their oncologist after considering the opinion ...
Parents of children diagnosed with cancer more likely to start psychotropic medications
1. Parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer had significantly increased risk for a first prescription of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and ...
Parents report greater optimism than oncologists about their child’s cancer prognosis
1. Three quarters of parents of children with a cancer diagnosis report greater optimism about their child’s prognosis than the ...
Age, race associated with end-of-life interventions in children with cancer
1. More intense interventions at the end-of-life for children with cancer was associated with a bimodal age distribution (children younger ...
Substantial cardiovascular disease among pediatric cancer survivors
1. From this cross-sectional study, survivors of pediatric cancer who received cardiotoxic therapy experienced high rates of cardiomyopathy, coronary artery ...
Increased frailty associated with childhood cancer survivorship
Image: PD Ewing Sarcoma 1. The prevalence of frailty among young adult childhood cancer survivors (CCS) is similar to that ...