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Child cancer survivors face increased cancer risk later in life

People who survived cancer during childhood continue to have a slightly higher risk of developing cancer throughout their lifetime, a Danish study has found.


Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen studied data on 47,697 people in the Nordic countries between 1943 and 2005, all of whom had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20 years.

Read the whole article at Cancer Research UK

28. 5. 2009 Cancer Research UK


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