Articles tagged with 'childhood cancer' | Checkup Newsroom

No one is made for cancer, but Perry Oviedo certainly has the spunk it takes to beat it. At just 3 years old, she’s already spent nearly two years fighting a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and she’s done it with a …

As a 12-year-old with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Chelsee Greer, D.O., learned some of the hard lessons of cancer that now shape how she treats the disease in children.Dr. Greer, who leads the Neuroblastoma Program at the Cook Children’s Hematology and …

By Jean YaegerMarlee Munguia has a rare cancer that wasn’t responding to standard chemotherapy when she was first diagnosed at age 3.But her doctors at Cook Children’s had other strategies to try, including immunotherapy and two stem cell …