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Your child finished cancer treatment six months ago. They're...know what to ask for. What Cancer Treatment Does to the Brain....barrier because some pediatric cancers directly involve the brain...nervous system. In targeting cancer cells, chemotherapy also affects...changes known as "chemobrain" or cancer-related cognitive impairment....

Your child finished cancer treatment six months ago....the reason. For many childhood cancer survivors, they...reason. For many childhood cancer survivors, they constitute...months or years after cancer treatment ends. They're...St. Jude study tracking childhood cancer survivors into...study tracking childhood cancer survivors into adulthood...

...a child is diagnosed with cancer, siblings don't experience...that 84% of adult siblings of childhood cancer survivors report family...adult siblings of childhood cancer survivors report family stress...than those of the child with cancer if intervention doesn't happen...diagnosis to the child with cancer in age-appropriate detail....

...she doesn't know how to answer. Your teenager cancels weekend plans for the third time this month because...management. 84% of adult siblings report that childhood family stress related to their brother or sister's...resources. Both are true at the same time, and neither cancels out the other. What complicates it further is...

Your 8-year-old asks if she caused her brother's autism. Your teenager cancels plans to help with therapy appointments, and you feel relief instead of...might not have the language for yet. 84% of adult siblings report that childhood family stress related to their brother or sister's disability was a major...

...when she was 14. Osteosarcoma. Bone cancer in her right leg. Brenna Huckaby had...leg. Brenna Huckaby had spent her childhood as a competitive gymnast in Baton...rehabilitation trip at MD Anderson Cancer Center put a snowboard under her feet....ski outings for kids recovering from cancer, rooted in the belief that getting...

...children will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than with childhood cancer, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined. There is good news, however,...will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than with childhood cancer, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined. There is good news, however, according...

Your employer saw the scar on your face from a childhood accident and assumed you couldn't handle client meetings. You've been doing...covers people with a record of such an impairment, like someone who had cancer and is now in remission. The third prong is the regarded-as provision....

...answer is yes, you can appeal, and the timeline starts now. Social Security denies a significant percentage of initial applications. At age 18, when childhood SSI recipients are reevaluated under adult disability standards, 55.7% are initially found ineligible. That doesn't mean the case is over. It means...

...discharge. Some failures present acutely within hours. Others develop gradually over days or weeks, with subtle behavioral shifts that blur into normal childhood variation until they don't. Here's what you're watching for, and when it's time to act. Acute Shunt Failure: Hours Matter. Acute failure typically...

..."speech therapy." Articulation disorders (difficulty producing specific sounds like /r/ or /s/), phonological disorders (patterns of sound errors), and childhood apraxia of speech (motor planning difficulty that affects speech sequencing) all fall here. Language. Receptive language is understanding what others...

...dietary therapy becomes the next conversation with their neurologist. Here's what you need to know about ketogenic and modified Atkins diets for childhood epilepsy, including how they work, what the research shows, and what families face when they commit to these protocols. How Dietary Therapy Works...