Tag: children
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Folic acid may help prevent kidney cancer and brain tumors in children
Folic acid may help prevent kidney cancer and brain tumors in young children A new study suggests that folic acid fortification of foods may possibly have helped decrease the incidence of the most common variety of kidney cancer (Wilms' tumor) and a sort of brain tumor (primitive neuroectodermal tumor) in youngsters. In 1998, the U.S.…
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Compass to Care helps families pay extra cancer costs for children
Compass to Care helps families spend additional cancer expenses for children When Michelle Ernsdorff was 14 months old, she was diagnosed with a Wilm's tumor, a form of kidney cancer. Her parents took her 200 miles from their home in Dubuque, Iowa, to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for two years of treatment that…