Good Day Folks, Team LFCT is back from a much-needed break and ready to take on 2020 with renewed gusto! We would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year and wish you all everything of the best for 2020 – may it be a better […]
With Christmas around the corner we are all looking for some great recipes for our families, and that includes recipes that Children with Cancer will enjoy, but what about those of us who are vegetarian? Children with Cancer especially, need to eat as many veggies as possible as they need them to build up their […]
Scientists studying one of the most common forms of childhood cancer have made an important breakthrough in understanding how the disease progresses. Neuroblastoma is a rare type of cancer of the nervous system that mainly affects babies and young children. It often begins in the adrenal gland but in around half of cases the condition […]
While the first emotions that parents will feel when their child has completed their cancer treatment are tremendous joy and relief, the event may also be a bit traumatic. You may feel scared, as you and your child with cancer have suddenly come to the end of a journey of a couple of months or […]
Today’s recipes are all about the cancer-fighting herbs that you are hopefully by now growing in your windowsill as per our post How to Incorporate Cancer-Fighting Herbs into your Diet. Ensuring that your Child with Cancer (and the rest of your family) eat well and get the right amount of nutrients to help their immune […]
New research indicates that childhood cancer cuts more lives short and imposes a bigger burden on society than all but a handful of diseases. Apart from cutting short young lives, cancer also burdens children with disabilities. Childhood cancer may be relatively rare, but in terms of disability and years of life lost it ranks near […]
The biggest animals should have the highest risks of developing tumors, but they don’t. In 2012, on a whim, Vincent Lynch decided to search the genome of the African elephant to see if it had extra anti-cancer genes. Cancers happen when cells build up mutations in their DNA that allow them to grow and divide […]
Today we are going to give you some ideas on how to incorporate those herbs into your and your Child with Cancer’s diet. While you probably know how to use most of these herbs, there may be some with which you are not that familiar and unsure of how they should be used. Learning more […]
September is the month dedicated to creating awareness about childhood cancer and this mom wrote a touching letter about her experience with the condition In 2013, my seven-year-old daughter Quinn was diagnosed with a Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor ― a rare and aggressive pediatric brain cancer. In hindsight, this is what I wish I knew to tell people. […]
It’s one of the great achievements of modern medicine: with advances in treatment, cure rates for children with cancer in North America now exceed 80%, up from 10% in the 1960s. Yet for kids across the developing world, the fruits of that progress remain largely out of reach. In low- and middle-income countries, restrictive access […]
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