Adult survivors of childhood cancer
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Sherry Bayliff
Abstract
Approximately 80% of childhood cancer patients become survivors in need of long-term follow-up for the monitoring and management of residual and late-onset sequelae of their cancer diagnosis and its treatment. Late effects include any physical and/or psychological outcome that develops and/or persists beyond 5 years from the diagnosis of cancer. Childhood cancer survivors often have difficulty accepting their post-therapy health risks and their therapy-related physical and neurocognitive limitations. Parents have reported a consistently poorer health-related quality of life for their childhood cancer survivor than population controls of the same age and sex. Although late effects are frequent and can be serious for the childhood cancer survivor, the implementation of risk-based care and the education of care providers in the early recognition of long-term sequelae offers opportunity for intervention and improved outcomes. Although the pediatric oncologist remains an integral part of the survivor's care plan, the primary care physician is essential in the ongoing care of the survivor. Efforts to provide resources and educate all care providers remain an important part of the process.
©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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- Editorial
- Adults with childhood illness
- Reviews
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Epidemiology, assessment, and treatment among children, adolescents, and adults
- Caring for adults with cystic fibrosis
- Childhood asthma in adults
- Cyanotic congenital heart defects in adult patients
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- Adults with left-to-right cardiac shunts and with shunts treated in childhood
- Transition of pediatric endocrine patients to adult care
- Adolescents and adults with inborn errors of metabolism
- Adults who had kidney disease in childhood
- Adult survivors of childhood cancer
- Adults with genetic syndromes
- Adult considerations of pediatric urologic care
- Adult patients with childhood anemias
- Disabled women and reproductive healthcare in the United States
- Children with allergic disease as adults
- Adults with congenital bleeding disorders
- Aging with intellectual disability. Current health issues
- Short Communication
- Transition from pediatric to adult care: social and family issues
