Study finds childhood cancer survivors have higher risk of dying years later
Childhood cancer survivors may have an increased risk of death from other forms of cancer, cardiac and cerebrovascular causes more than 25 years after their initial illness, UK scientists have found.
A research team at the University of Birmingham examined long-term death rates among 17,981 childhood cancer survivors, all of whom had been diagnosed before the age of 15 years between 1940 and 1991 and had lived for at least five years from their initial diagnosis. Participants were followed up until the end of 2006, during which time there were 3,049 deaths.
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Reference
- Reulen, R. et al. (2010). Long-term Cause-Specific Mortality Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 304 (2), 172-179 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.923
Keywords: childhood cancer survivors, increased risk of death
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