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Mum raises awareness for childhood cancer with heartbreaking school photo

Mum raises awareness for childhood cancer with heartbreaking school photo

LONDON — A British mum who lost her little girl to cancer has shared an emotional post on Facebook to help raise awareness of the disease.Julie Apicella of Norfolk in December lost her daughter Emily after her long battle with Wilms' tumour, a cancer of the kidney.SEE ALSO: Mum makes heartbreaking plea in video about her son's deathEmily underwent surgery, received chemotherapy and took part in a drugs trial, according to the Huffington Post UK, but she kept relapsing."In July to August 2015 we came off the trial as it wasn't working and came home to make memories of our time left," Apicella said.


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Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer

Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer

Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killerhelloNEW YORK -- Brain cancer is now the deadliest childhood cancer in the U.S., now ahead of leukemia, a result of improved leukemia treatment and a frustrating lack of progress on brain cancer.Government statisticians reported the change in rankings Friday, drawing from a review of 15 years of death certificates."I think most people, when they think of childhood cancer, think of leukemia," said Sally Curtin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."This is kind of a changing of the guard."


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Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer

Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip in Durham, N.C.In a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and results published online Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, by the New England Journal of Medicine, a gene-activity test that was used to gauge early-stage breast cancer patient's risk accurately identified a group of women whose cancers are so likely to respond to hormone-blocking drugs that adding chemo would do little if any good while exposing them to side effects and other health risks.(AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)NEW YORK (AP) – A review of 15 years of death certificates has prompted a change in the ranking of dangerous childhood cancers.Sally Curtin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says leukemia has been supplanted by brain cancer in the U.S.