Cancer Risk Factors

Research from University Children's Hospital has provided new data on cancer risk factors

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 1st, 2008

A new study, 'Cardiac damage after treatment of childhood cancer: a long-term follow-up,' is now available. According to a study from Ljubljana, Slovenia, "With improved childhood cancer cure rate, long term sequelae are becoming an important factor of quality of life. Signs of cardiovascular disease are frequently found in long term survivors of cancer."

"Cardiac damage may be related to irradiation and chemotherapy.We have evaluated simultaneous influence of a series of independent variables on the late cardiac damage in childhood cancer survivors in Slovenia and identified groups at the highest risk. 211 long-term survivors of different childhood cancers, at least...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-01)

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