Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that survivors of childhood cancers are at higher risk for obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes than their siblings who did not have cancer. The risk exists because the survivors tend to be more sedentary than the siblings.
The study, done across medical centers in the United States and Canada, looked at over 20,000 childhood cancer survivors. From those 20,000 people, over 9000 survey responses were received and analyzed, and these were compared to almost 3000 responses from siblings. The researchers were looking for the type of lifestyle the survivors led …read more

Compared to standard doses of chemotherapy, a dose-intensive regimen of cisplatin and doxorubicin offered no clinical benefit in patients with the bone cancer osteosarcoma.
Such were the findings of a randomized clinical trial whose data has been reported in the January 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In other cancers such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma and breast cancer, increasing the intensity of a chemotherapy regimen (means decreasing the number of days between chemotherapy treatments) may improve survival, as been shown in previous studies.
But that wasn’t the case in osteosarcoma: while the dose-intensive regimen killed tumor cells better than the …read more