Lifelong Cancer Incidence in 47 697 Patients Treated for Childhood Cancer in the Nordic Countries

2009197 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Jørgen H. Olsen · Danish Cancer Society

Henrik Møller

Jeanette Falck Winther

Catherine Rechnitzer

Guđmundur Jónmundsson

Jane Christensen

Stanislaw Garwicz

Abstract

Survivors of childhood cancer have a persistent excess risk for a second primary cancer throughout their lives, accompanied by continuous changes in the risk of cancers at specific sites.

Topics & Keywords

Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research DNA Repair Mechanisms

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volume 101, Issue 11, pp. 806-813

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djp104

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