General: Cancer in children is still healing long after effects. 40% receive a life-threatening illness in her / his future life. New long-term study confirms earlier reports here. Article updated June 7, 2011

I 7 June 2011: Down article added to the results from one year long study showing that as a child who previously was treated for cancer and cancer survivors a greater risk as adults another form of cancer. Especially cancer of the digestive tracts than is relatively common. The risk is statistically significant but is also not that big the researchers said. See bottom of message for abstract of the study.

April 11, 2011: I am cancer-current revision to the article below and let stand as it is still relevant. Many kids who get cancer survive after yet often serious problems caused by the treatments.

June 27, 2007: Source: De Volkskrant

Children treated for cancer experience it in their lives too cumbersome. As many as 40% after getting a different form of cancer or other life-threatening illness such as heart failure. Only 20% say they have little or no charge to experience the treatment of cancer. These are the results of a 30-year study of 1362 people conducted by the AMC in Amsterdam.

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Cancer in children is still healing long after impact

Source: de Volkskrant

Cancer in children is still healing long after impact
From our reporters, Brother Scholtens, Carlijne Fox

LONDON - Three quarters of the children in their youth have been treated for childhood experiences later in life because of hindrance. Often severely affected, according to a study by specialists at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. This is in a, presented Tuesday in New York, research published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Later consequences are significant and pervasive than previously expected," said one of the researchers, professor of pediatric oncology Huib Caron. Child Cancer Survivors would also be given life-care hospitals and special clinics should be developed to accompany these patients intensively. The health insurance companies are positive about these clinics.

The Amsterdam 1362 pediatricians urged people between 1966 and 1996 in the Emma Children treated for cancer. The people in the AMC and the Dutch Cancer Institute (NKI) was investigated.

She also received questionnaires about their health situation. The treatment of childhood cancer has improved considerably over the past thirty years. The number of survivors is growing bigger. This means that subsequent treatment side effects now visible.

An examination of the AMC show not only that three-quarters of the survivors suffer from a serious condition, but with a quarter or more health suffers. That is remarkable, enable the AMC researchers. Especially since the average age of the subjects under 25 years.

Of the survivors, 40 percent in the year after treatment a serious, even life-threatening condition had been directly related to cancer treatment. In these late effects is about orthopedic problems, neurological problems, half tumors, infertility or problems with the hormone, the turfden AMC researchers.

In particular, patients who have been irradiated, there appear much later in life suffer from it. Children who received chemotherapy, experience less affected by it. Children with bone cancer later in life get the best experience of their treatment, partly because limbs to be amputated. Children with leukemia and kidney cancer experience any discomfort.

Netherlands has seven thousand survivors of childhood cancer, each year there are four hundred at. "They are entitled to a good, lifelong aftercare ', make the AMC specialists.

Pediatrician Leontine Kremer emphasizes again the need for a special outpatient clinic for follow-up, because the survivors are now getting between two stools. It has been done, depending on the individual cancer pediatrician, she says, but lack preventive care in a hospital structures.

According to oncologist Caron covers many health after cancer, the earlier you're there, the more limited the losses.

Long-term Risks and subsequent component Primary neoplasms Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer

  1. Raoul C. Reulen , PhD;
  2. Clare Frobisher , Ph.D.;
  3. David L. Winter ;
  4. Julie Kelly ;
  5. Emma R. Lancashire , PhD;
  6. Charles A. Stiller , MSc;
  7. Kathryn Pritchard-Jones , PhD, MD;
  8. Helen C. Jenkinson , PhD, MD;
  9. Michael M. Hawkins , DPhil
  10. for the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Steering Group

[+] Author Affiliations

  1. Author Affiliations: Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Drs Reulen, Frobisher, Lancashire, and Hawkins, and Mr. Winter and Ms. Kelly), Childhood Cancer Research Group , University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (Mr. Stiller), Department of Paediatric Oncology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, United Kingdom (Dr Pritchard-Jones) and Department of Paediatric Oncology, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham , United Kingdom (Dr Jenkinson).

Abstract

Context Survivors of childhood cancer are at excess risk of subsequent component Developing primary neoplasms but the long-term risks are Uncertain.

Objectives To Investigate long-term risks or subsequent component primary neoplasms in survivors of childhood cancer, to identify the types of wine That Contribute to long-term excess risk, and to identify subgroup of survivors at Substantially Increased risk of primary neoplasms That May Particular subsequent component requirement specific interventions.

Design, Setting, and Participants British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a population-based cohort of 17,981 5-year survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed with cancer at younger Than 15 Years Between 1940 and 1991 in Great Britain, followed up through December 2006.

Main Outcome Measures Standardized incidence ratios (SIRS), absolute excess risks (AERS), cumulative incidence and subsequent component or primary neoplasms.

Results After a median follow-up time of 24.3 years (mean = 25.6 years), Primary 1354 neoplasms subsequent component Were ascertained, must frequently observed being the central nervous system (n = 344), nonmelanoma skin cancer (n = 278), digestive ( n = 105), genitourinary (n = 100), breast (n = 97), and bone (n = 94). The overall SIR was 4 times more than expected (SIR, 3.9; [CI] 95% confidence interval, 3.6-4.2, AER, 16.8 per 10 000 person-years). The AER at older Than 40 Years Highest was for digestive and genitourinary primary neoplasms subsequent component (AER, 5.9 [95% CI, 2.5-9.3] and AER, 6.0 [95% CI, 2.3-9.6] per 10 000 person-years, respectively), 36% of the total synthesis AER was attributable to two primary neoplasms subsequent component sites. The cumulative incidence of colorectal cancer for survivors immediately abdominopelvic Treated with Irradiation was 1.4% (95% CI, 0.7% -2.6%) by age 50 years, comparable with the 1.2% risk in Individuals with at least 2 first-degree relatives Affected by Colorectal Cancer.

Conclusion Among a cohort of British childhood cancer survivors, the greatest excess risk associated with older Than subsequent component primary neoplasms at 40 years was for digestive and genitourinary neoplasms.