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 ...

For young children living with rare diseases, they often don’t know what’s happening to them. Not fully understanding their symptoms can make kids confused or scared, serving as one of the top ...

Childhood cancer is the eighth-leading cause of childhood death globally and causes more deaths than measles, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, with outcomes largely determined by resource availability, ...

To fill a real-world population-based data gap on cancer outcomes in Colombia, we implemented VIGICANCER in 2009, a nationwide childhood cancer clinical outcomes surveillance system to collect, ...

For the first time, Australia has recorded no new cervical cancer diagnoses in women under 25. To get there, they vaccinated young men.

In wealthy countries, a child diagnosed with cancer often has an excellent chance of survival. But in lower resource countries, survival rates are... Every year, an estimated 400,000 children ...