Edith Cowan University Sep 10 2025 New research from the Exercise Medicine Research Institute at Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted that children undergoing cancer treatment often lose skeletal muscle at a time when they should be rapidly gaining it, a loss that could increase treatment complications and raise the risk of long-term health problems.  Both the cancer itself and the cancer treatment can cause muscle loss in children.  Muscle is the body's metabolic reserve. When children