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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Adult survivors of childhood cancers face more than four times the risk of a major health problem compared with their siblings, according to a survey of 10,397 adults diagnosed with a pediatric cancer between 1970 and 1986.
Thirty years after being diagnosed with a childhood cancer, 68% of the survivors had at least one other medical condition, lead investigator Kevin C. Oeffinger, M.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
For a third (33%), the medical conditions fell into one of three categories: severe, life threatening or disabling, or death. Overall, 44% had more than one medical condition, said Dr. Oeffinger, professor of family medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
He described the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, as the first to estimate frequency of medical problems in adults who had undergone cancer therapy as children....
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