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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.

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Original post 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.

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Original post by Brian White