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04 April 2022
Incidence of childhood cancer in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
We did not observe a statistically significant change in the ASIRs of childhood cancer during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada compared with the period before the pandemic. Moreover, enrolment in clinical trials remained stable, and we did not observe an increase in the proportion of patients with metastatic disease or early mortality. Although these results are reassuring, continued surveillance is necessary to ascertain potential long-term negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among children with cancer.
09 March 2022
Hope for children with brain cancer
Brain cancer is the most common type of solid cancer in children, and can be notoriously difficult to target with interventions such as chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. But the work of Brain Canada-funded researchers is shedding new light into our ability to treat this pernicious childhood illness.
28 December 2021
The only thing I wanted for Christmas was for Séanne to get better
The Holidays are dubbed the most wonderful time of the year. Yet, every year hundreds of sick children will spend the festive season at The Children’s, away from the warmth of family and friends. They are too ill to leave the hospital even for a few hours.
10 December 2021
Cancer diagnoses in Canadian children not delayed in first 9 months of pandemic: study
A new study has found no significant change in the number of new cancer diagnoses in Canadian children during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting health-care restrictions imposed at that time did not lead to delayed diagnoses.
New resources
A Kid’s Guide to Radiation Therapy
Quevedo, Giovanna and Nala Haley
États-Unis, 2020
Empreintes – Accompagner le deuil
France,
Animations explaining brain tumours
Grande-Bretagne,
Partners
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