After three days of leg pain and a fever, Kinsley Bennett was diagnosed with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on Oct. 16, ...

For every possible cause of childhood leukemia pain, your child’s team of doctors and healthcare providers has a way to manage it. This year, about 15,000 parents will learn that their child or teen ...

An innovative immunotherapy combination has shown a stunning 99% response rate in children with relapsed leukemia. The phase 2 trial, run jointly between researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research ...

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that ...

Circumstantial and direct evidence, including a review of twin and backtracking studies, demonstrate potential prenatal development of acute childhood leukemias. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and ...

Children born to mothers who had urinary or genital tract infections during pregnancy appear to have an increased risk for childhood leukemia, say researchers reporting a Danish registry analysis that ...

Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children and adolescents. Little is known about how the disease is caused, but previous studies have indicated a link between leukemia and maternal ...

Leukemia, characterized by unregulated clonal proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells, is the second leading cause of death in children. The role of the intestinal microbiota is closely linked to ...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in children, although it is rare. It begins in the bone marrow and rapidly progresses. Long-term survival rates exceed 90%, but ...

The discovery of new cancer cells with a switched-on gene called ZBTB16 is a breakthrough in childhood blood cancer research.