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Childhood cancer survivors see health problems later
Posted Jun 27th 2007 4:19PM by Brian White
Filed under: All Cancers, Cancer Survivors
A report presented this week to the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded that some young adults who have survived a childhood cancer malignancy end up having one severe health problem later in life.
The amount of kids that see a health problem in later life represented a minority of childhood cancer survivors, according to the report.
Additionally, the report gave insight into a certain segment of cancer survivors that had not been studied in-depth before, or had been studied without complete follow-up or other problems, lending them somewhat inaccurate. With this specific study,
explained in detail here, a more representative picture was given and appropriate follow-up data was collected as well.
Tags: cancer in childhood, CancerInChildhood, childhood cancer, ChildhoodCancer, kids with cancer, KidsWithCancer
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