Results for "Childhood Cancer"

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Pediatric Palliative Care: Improving a Child’s Quality of Life
If your child faces a life-threatening disease or life-limiting condition, it can be undoubtedly challenging on them and your family. Treatments and medications...
Oct 13
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How Childhood Cancers Differ from Adult Cancers
Even though your child may be the spitting image of you or share your unique personality, they aren’t just small adults. Children require special care...
Jan 17
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Talking to Children When a Sibling Has Cancer (an Age-by-Age Guide)
Hearing your child has cancer is one of the worst things a parent can hear, but it can also be difficult for siblings as well. Cancer has a ripple effect...
Nov 11
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After Childhood Cancer: What to Expect When Treatment is Over
The news your child has completed cancer treatment can bring a wide range of emotions—from exhilaration and relief to anxiety and fear. While this a time...
May 27
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How to Help a Child Cope When a Sibling Has Cancer
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, it can affect every member of the family. It can be especially difficult for siblings. “Brothers and sisters of...
May 15
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Know the Glow: Your Eyes Can Detect a Rare Childhood Cancer
Nowadays our smartphone cameras are on hand for every one of our children’s firsts—from rolling over and walking to first words and first days of school....
May 06
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Wilms Tumor: What Parents Should Know About This Pediatric Cancer
There’s probably nothing more frightening for a parent than hearing your child has cancer. Fortunately, thanks to advancements in treatment therapies,...
Mar 23
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Dream Wedding at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
As nurses recently admired 22-year-old cancer patient Samantha Preston’s engagement ring, an incredible idea suddenly grabbed everyone’s attention. Preston’s...
Dec 10
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Bedside Stories: Living Backwards
Ten-year-old Peyton Gonzalez is like any other kid her age, but she’s also literally one in a million -- a survivor of an extremely rare cancer that required...
Mar 10
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Hope Heals: Music Therapy Restores Fight For Little Cancer Patient
Meet 4-year-old Braxton Cluff. He and his twin brother, Briggs, are part rock stars, part adventurers and all fighters. And, in their short time on earth,...
Nov 26