‘Cure is not enough’: Young cancer survivors face a shorter lifespan
Researchers have found that adolescents and young adult survivors of cancer experience side effects and lack of access to quality health care that impacts overall survival.
Leukemia
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Healthing.ca partners with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada
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Blood cancer researchers unite to overcome challenges of COVID-19
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Cancer survivors feel pressured to ‘put on a happy face and get on with life’
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Childhood cancer diagnosis can be tough on families
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Blood cancer diagnosis couldn’t keep Canada’s Olympic athlete off his board
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Leukemia: types, symptoms and treatment
Leukemia is a broad term for multiple different forms of blood cancer. It primarily affects the stem cells that grow into blood cells.
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AML maintenance treatment shows great promise
The cancer drug azacitidine, taken in pill form, helped improve relapse-free survival and overall survival.
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They told me I had cancer. It wasn't a 'fight' I signed up for
September 22 is World CML Day. It reminds me that if I had been diagnosed 25 years earlier, I would probably be dead.
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How to spot the signs of blood cancer
Blood cancers are the third leading cause of cancer death in Canadian men and the fourth in women
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Five-year-old doesn't let leukemia diagnosis get her down
It is every parent’s worst nightmare, and for Amanda and Garrett McCallum of Brockville that nightmare has just begun.
Heddy Sorour, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Brockville Recorder & TimesSeptember 11Health News
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