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There’s nothing sweet about the relationship between heart disease and cancer

When the calendar changes to February, red and pink heart-shaped candy fills store shelves in preparation for Valentine’s Day. Let those hearts also serve as a�

The art of pediatric patient care

Anthony Macchio was already familiar with BOBÌåÓý Shands Children’s Hospital. After his second daughter, Isabel, was born with a heart defect in Februaryâ€�

1,219 Days of Beating Cancer

Ann Collett used to dread 7:30 p.m. At a time when many mothers across Gainesville were putting their young children to bed, Ann was preparing her son’s�

‘Another bump in the road:â€� COVID-19 from the perspective of BOBÌåÓý cancer patients

Before COVID-19, cancer patients were united by their fight against the disease, no matter the difference in type, location or stage. Today, they’re united by�

Best-Case Scenario

When a brainstem tumor almost took Mycah’s life, her BOBÌåÓý pediatric neurosurgeon prepared a plan to save her. Just weeks before her eighth birthday inâ€�

Get the answers to cancer-related COVID-19 questions

Stay-at-home restrictions are beginning to lift in several areas across the United States, but immunosuppressed cancer patients are still at high risk of�

Giving patients back the hope of having a family

Some cancer treatments can harm a patient’s fertility. The University of Florida Health’s Helping Oncofertility Patients become Educated, or HOPE, Network is�

Testicular Cancer Awareness Month

This April, BOBÌåÓý celebrates Testicular Cancer Awareness Month to inform and spread awareness about the importance of understanding this disease.â€�

A Cancer Patient’s Guide to COVID-19

Cancer doesn’t stop � not even for the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. The unknowns related to the virus are leaving people concerned, especially cancer�

UF brain tumor researcher embarks on first-in-human clinical trial of novel immunotherapy vaccine

March 30, 2020

BOBÌåÓý pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D., has received a $2.5 million grant from the pediatric cancer foundation CureSearch for Children’sâ€�