Mutation of chromosome-protecting gene linked to more aggressive forms of...
Mutation of an essential gene responsible for protecting the ends of chromosomes (or telomeres) from the fraying and damage of cancerous tumours and aging has been linked to human cancer for the first...
View ArticleCancer fight puts focus on lack of minorities on stem-cell donor lists
MONTREAL — A Quebec woman’s desperate online plea for a compatible stem-cell donor in her bid to fight cancer a second time is shedding light on the lack of minorities on official lists in Canada and...
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Judge says forcing aboriginal girl to stay in chemo is to ‘impose our world...
SIX NATIONS, Ont. — For Laurie Hill, resident of Canada’s largest aboriginal community, it’s just wrong to suggest that modern medicine is the only way to treat cancer and other serious diseases. She...
View ArticleAboriginal girl ‘doing fine’ after refusing chemotherapy treatment for...
The first of two Ontario aboriginal girls to refuse chemotherapy for cancer has not had a relapse as reported and is doing fine, says the chief of her band. Some media reports have suggested that...
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Aboriginal woman has right to take cancer-stricken daughter out of...
BRANTFORD, Ont. — An emotional dispute over a family’s decision to pull their cancer-stricken daughter out of chemotherapy ended Friday with a potentially far-reaching constitutional decision, as a...
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Little scientific, nothing native, about U.S. treatment taken by...
The late founder of a Florida alternative health clinic that treated two cancer-stricken Canadian aboriginal girls built her program on the notion that wheat grass holds remarkable healing properties,...
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Florida alternative health centre that treated Canadian aboriginal children...
The Florida alternative health centre chosen by two Canadian aboriginal families in lieu of chemotherapy for their children is being sued by a number of former employees who allege the clinic is...
View ArticleNational Post editorial board: When a child’s life is at stake, the court...
Monday brought sad but almost inevitable news: 11-year-old Makayla Sault of Ontario’s New Credit First Nation had passed away of a stroke — the result, her parents say, of chemotherapy treatment she...
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Terry Glavin: Makayla’s death, but our disgrace
Because it cannot be put to any grand or cheap political purpose, the one true thing you’re unlikely to hear spoken loudly and plainly about the unnecessary death of 11-year-old leukemia victim Makayla...
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Ontario wary of challenging court ruling on use of traditional remedies to...
The Ontario government seems eager to avoid appealing a controversial court ruling on the treatment of a young aboriginal girl with cancer, working instead toward an out-of-court resolution of the...
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Judge to revisit his ruling that aboriginal girl had right to pursue...
The dispute over a young aboriginal girl who abandoned conventional cancer treatment in favour of alternative care is taking another odd twist, with a hearing planned for Friday before the judge who...
View ArticleLawyers say aboriginal judge behind unusual chemotherapy ruling has...
It was, from the start, a strange case, involving a hospital suing a children’s aid society to force an aboriginal child with leukemia back into chemotherapy. It ended on a no-less unorthodox note...
View ArticleNational Post View: An incoherent ruling on native rights
The bad news out of Brantford, Ont., is that J.J., a young girl from the Six Nations of the Grand River, is once again fighting leukemia. The good news is that she is receiving chemotherapy treatment,...
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Experimental tissue-freezing gives kids with cancer a futuristic fertility...
CHICAGO — Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She’s also getting a chance at having babies of her own someday. To battle infertility...
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‘We had to do something’: Untested ‘designer cell’ therapy saves baby close...
[facebook url="https://www.facebook.com/GreatOrmondSt/videos/10153131958981921/" /] That’s how Layla Richards, a 1-year-old from London, became the first person in the world to be treated for cancer...
View ArticleRevolutionary cancer treatment would act like ‘living drug’ and prevent...
A revolutionary cancer treatment that remembers the disease and remains like a watchman to prevent it returning is being developed. Immune cells are being engineered so they not only boost the body’s...
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Richard McGhee beat leukemia – but then, mysteriously, things got really bad
Richard McGhee and his family believed the worst was behind them. McGhee, a retired case officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who lives near Annapolis, Md., had spent six months battling leukemia...
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Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc to undergo treatment for leukemia: ‘I will...
OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc was on his feet in question period Wednesday, cheerfully batting down opposition queries with his customary partisan enthusiasm — just two hours after announcing that he’s been...
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