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Childhood cancer

Index Childhood cancer

Childhood cancer (also known as pediatric cancer) is cancer in a child. [1]

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Afleet Alex

Afleet Alex (born May 9, 2002 in Florida) is an American thoroughbred race horse who, in 2005, won two of America's classic races, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.

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Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (previously known as Alex's Lemonade Stand and currently abbreviated as ALSF) is an American pediatric cancer charity founded by Alexandra "Alex" Scott.

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American Childhood Cancer Organization

The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO), previously named Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization dedicated to childhood cancer.

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Andrew Bailey (baseball)

Andrew Scott Bailey (born May 31, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

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Assisted reproductive technology

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is the technology used to achieve pregnancy in procedures such as fertility medication, in vitro fertilization and surrogacy.

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Aubrey Barr

Aubrey Adam Barr is a marathon runner and a childhood cancer survivor.

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Be Loud! Sophie Foundation

The Be Loud! Sophie Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which supports care for young adults with cancer at UNC Hospitals.

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Ben Bowen

Benjamin David "Ben" Bowen (November 14, 2002 – February 25, 2005), commonly called Big Ben Bowen, was a boy from Huntington, West Virginia, who was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor in 2004.

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Berta Jereb

Berta Jereb (born 25 May 1925 in Črneče) is a Slovenian oncologist and the first Slovenian radiotherapist.

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Blasphemy law in the Republic of Ireland

In the state of Ireland, blasphemy is required to be prohibited by Article 40.6.1.i. of the 1937 Constitution.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.

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Child Cancer Foundation

The Child Cancer Foundation is a New Zealand-based charity that offers support to children with cancer and their families.

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Childhood Cancer Canada

Childhood Cancer Canada (CCC) is a foundation dedicated to fighting childhood cancer.

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Childhood leukemia

Childhood leukemia is a type of leukemia, usually acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), and a type of childhood cancer.

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Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group

The Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group is an organization focused on childhood cancer.

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Children's Cancer Institute

Children's Cancer Institute is an Australian medical research institute wholly dedicated to the prevention and treatment of childhood cancer.

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Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model and actress.

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CLIC Sargent

CLIC Sargent is a charity in the United Kingdom formed in 2005.

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Clyde cancer cluster

The Clyde cancer cluster was a childhood cancer cluster located in and around Clyde, Ohio, United States.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Coronation Street timeline

Coronation Street has had a large number of major events.

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Craig Breslow

Craig Andrew Breslow (pronounced BREHZ-loh; born August 8, 1980) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization.

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CUSP9

CUSP9 is one of several cancer treatment protocols using re-purposed older drugs to interfere with cancer cell's growth signaling rather than directly killing them with cytotoxic drugs.

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Cycle for Survival

Cycle for Survival is a national (USA) movement to beat rare cancers.

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Dmitry Erokhin

Dmitry Yurievich Erokhin (Дмитрий Юрьевич Ерохин,; born 1 November 1979 in Novokuznetsk) is a Russian ultramarathon and trail runner, amateur sports person and a public character.

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Doernbecher Children's Hospital

Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic teaching children's hospital associated with Oregon Health & Science University located in Portland, Oregon.

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Elope, Inc.

elope, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado that designs, manufactures, and distributes costumes and accessories.

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Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Englewood Hospital is an acute care teaching hospital in Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Epidemiology of cancer

The epidemiology of cancer is the study of the factors affecting cancer, as a way to infer possible trends and causes.

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Eric Cantor

Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American politician, lawyer, and banker, who served as the United States representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2001 until 2014.

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Fiz Brown

Fiz Stape (also Brown) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street.

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Forbes 30 Under 30

Forbes 30 Under 30 is a set of lists issued annually by Forbes magazine and some of its regional editions.

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Frank Pallone

Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. (born October 30, 1951) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1988.

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George S. Barrett

George S. Barrett is an American business executive in the health care industry.

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George Yeo

George Yeo Yong-Boon (born 13 September 1954) is a Singaporean business executive and a former politician.

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Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (GOCC, Polish Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy, WOŚP) is the biggest, non-governmental, non-profit, charity organization in Poland.

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Gregg Harper

Gregory Livingston Harper (born June 1, 1956) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for since 2009.

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Hair for Hope

Hair for Hope is a charity event in which participants have their heads shaven in order to raise funds for the Children's Cancer Foundation whose mission is to "improving the quality of life of children with cancer and their families through enhancing their emotional, social and medical well-being.".

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Hamish Wallace

William Hamish Beith Wallace (born 25 October 1956) is a consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.

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Headbands of Hope

Headbands of Hope LLC is an organization founded by Jessica Ekstrom that sells headbands in effort to raise money to support cancer research for children.

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Hello, Brother

Hello, Brother, also known as Little Brother, is a 2005 South Korean drama film directed by Lim Tai-hyung.

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Humans of New York

Humans of New York (HONY) is a photoblog and book of street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City.

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In vitro fertilisation

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro ("in glass").

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International Society of Paediatric Oncology

The International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) (French: Société internationale d'oncologie pédiatrique) is a medical association for pediatric oncologists that is dedicated to increasing knowledge about childhood cancer.

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Jack Falahee

Jack Ryan Falahee (born February 20, 1989) is an American actor.

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Jaume Mora

Jaume Mora is a Spanish physician and researcher specialized in pediatric cancer.

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Judith Kingston

Judith Eve Kingston (24 April 1949 – 24 January 2016) was an English paediatric oncologist best known for pioneering the use of chemotherapy in the treatment of retinoblastoma.

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Kenneth Melani

Kenneth R. Melani is the former president and chief executive officer of Highmark, a health insurance company based in Pittsburgh and the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania.

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Khavaran, Tabriz

Khavaran is an under-construction residential borough situated in the city of Tabriz and in the jurisdiction of the District 9 Submunicipality.

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Learning problems in childhood cancer

Certain treatments for childhood cancer are known to cause learning problems in survivors, particularly when central nervous system (CNS)-directed therapies are used (e.g. cranial radiation; high-dose methotrexate or cytarabine; or intrathecal chemotherapy).

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Leonora Children's Cancer Fund

The Leonora Children's Cancer Fund was a British registered charity that was registered on 14 September 1994.

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List of cancer types

This is a list of cancer types.

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List of Coronation Street characters (2010)

The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 2010, by order of first appearance.

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List of Coronation Street characters (2014)

Coronation Street is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960.

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Love Your Melon

Love Your Melon is an American hat and apparel company that donates 50% of its profits to benefit children with pediatric cancer in the US.

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Luisa Massimo

Luisa Massimo (22 December 1928 – 5 October 2016) was an Italian pediatrician.

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Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio

Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio was born on April 4, 1998 in Morristown, New Jersey.

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Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award

The Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball (MLB) player "whose on-field performance and contributions to his community inspire others to higher levels of achievement." The award was created by the Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA) and was presented to the inaugural winner—Mark McGwire—in 1997 as the "Man of the Year Award".

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

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Michelle Haber

Michelle Haber (born 18 October 1956) is an Australian cancer researcher.

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Miriam Dalli

Miriam Dalli is a Maltese politician, and former journalist, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since May 2014, on behalf of the Labour Party.

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National Association of Professional Women

The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) is a Chinese-American for profit professional association and networking platform fully owned by Professional Diversity Network (NASDAQ:IPDN) since 2014.

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Odile Schweisguth

Odile Schweisguth (1913-2002) was a French physician.

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Oncology

Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

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Oncolytic herpes virus

Many variants of herpes simplex virus have been considered for viral therapy of cancer; the early development of these was thoroughly reviewed in the journal Cancer Gene Therapy in 2002.

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Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Pediatric Blood & Cancer is a peer-review online-only medical journal covering pediatric oncology and hematology.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.

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Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children's Hospital, located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 10 miles (17 km) east of Harrisburg, are Penn State’s medical school and academic medical center.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

A polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) is an organic chlorine compound with the formula C12H10−xClx.

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Presidential election campaign fund checkoff

The presidential election campaign fund checkoff appears on US income tax return forms as the question Do you want $3 of your federal tax to go to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund? Originally $1 and implemented in 1966 as an attempt at the public funding of elections, this money provides for the financing of presidential primary and general election campaigns and national party conventions.

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Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital

Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Remiremont

Remiremont is a town and commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est.

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Ricki Lake

Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress, television presenter and producer.

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Rob Kaminsky

Robert Harris "Rob" Kaminsky (born September 2, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Indians organization.

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Sam Tsui

Samuel Tsui (born May 2, 1989) is an American singer/songwriter and video producer.

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Specialty (medicine)

A specialty, or speciality, in medicine is a branch of medical practice.

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Sporting Life (retailer)

Sporting Life is a sporting goods retailer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Sporting Life 10K

The Sporting Life 10K is an annual 10K running/walking event on Yonge Street in Toronto, that has taken place every May since 2003.

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St. Baldrick's Foundation

The St.

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Stuart Orkin

Stuart H. Orkin is an American physician, stem cell biologist and researcher in pediatric hematology-oncology.

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Tabatha Coffey

Tabatha Coffey (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian hairstylist, salon owner, and television personality.

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Teresa J. Vietti

Teresa J. Vietti (November 5, 1927 – January 25, 2010) was an American physician.

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The Ark Church

The Ark Church in York, England, is a Mainstream, Orthodox and Evangelical Christian Church that is Charismatic or Pentecostal in nature.

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Transplacental carcinogenesis

Transplacental carcinogenesis is a series of genotypic and/or phenotypic changes in the cells of a fetus due to in utero exposure to carcinogens.

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VU University Medical Center

VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (VU Medisch Centrum or VUmc) is the university hospital affiliated with the VU University Amsterdam.

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World Community Grid

World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity.

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Yadier Molina

Yadier Benjamin Molina (born July 13, 1982), nicknamed "Yadi", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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2015–16 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 2015–16 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 50th Honduran Liga Nacional edition, since its establishment in 1965.

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2016 Major League Baseball season

The 2016 Major League Baseball season began on April 3, 2016 with a Sunday afternoon matchup between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, the two teams with the best regular season records in 2015, at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

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2017 Major League Baseball season

The 2017 Major League Baseball season began on April 2, 2017 with three games, including the 2016 World Series champions Chicago Cubs facing off against the St. Louis Cardinals, and ended on October 1.

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2018 Major League Baseball season

The 2018 Major League Baseball season began on March 29, 2018, and is scheduled to end on September 30.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_cancer

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