The Trump administration proposes cutting $6 billion from the National Institutes of Health. Philanthropy cannot replicate the scale of government-backed research.

When oncologists gave my 5-year-old daughter the all-clear from high-risk neuroblastoma in 2010, I breathed a sigh of relief. But her health needs were just beginning. Fifteen years later, the intense ...

Every year, an estimated 400,000 children worldwide develop a form of cancer. Five-year survival rates in high-income nations are typically over 80%, with an expected cure rate of near 100% for some ...

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on UNC Health Care's Health Talk blog. People who are diagnosed with cancer usually have a few immediate questions. What will treatment be like? Am I ...

Learning how to talk to kids about cancer is something no parent should need to do. Unfortunately, the reality for many families is that they will. Their announcements followed research published last ...

Tyler Nichols completed the race in a very unique way — in the hallways of Riley Hospital, with his doctors and nurses ...

Pediatric cancer research in Iowa is getting a $3M boost after Gov. Reynolds signed a law taxing vapes and other nicotine ...

For many families affected by pediatric cancer, the Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City holds some bad memories.

The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital will receive up to $3 million for pediatric cancer research annually, ...

Brain cancer has left Tayden Ybarra, 16, legally blind in her left eye, says her mother, Tammy Ybarra. “She doesn’t see side to side, up, down, only like a pinpoint in the front.” At school, bullies ...