Health Of Childhood Cancer Survivors Still At Risk
Breast Cancer news May 26th. 2008, 9:38pmSubmitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
IT AIN’T OVER WHEN IT’S OVER
About two-thirds of pediatric cancer survivors experience at least one late health effect of treatment, and for more than one-quarter of survivors it is severe or life-threatening.AS YOUNG survivors of the modern era of cancer treatment enter the third and fourth decades of their lives, they find themselves poster children for the hope of medical progress — and also for the toll taken by cancer’s toxic treatments.The cure rate for childhood cancer is one of 20th century medicine’s greatest success stories. Before 1970, few children with cancer made it. Today, nearly 80% of children who have cancer are cured, according to the American Cancer Society’s 2008 statistics. Of the 11 million American cancer survivors, 270,000 have survived childhood cancer.
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