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After Treatment for Childhood Cancer


After Treatment for Childhood Cancer | American Cancer Society

After treatment, the concerns tend to shift toward the long-term effects of the cancer and its treatment, as well as about the cancer coming back.

Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer - NCI

The treatment of cancer may cause health problems (late effects) for childhood cancer survivors months or years after successful treatment ...

Coping - Care for Childhood Cancer Survivors - NCI

Many children are very resilient after cancer treatment. Others experience social and/or emotional problems. If your child is not sleeping well ...

Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Treatment | ACS

But the treatments that help these children survive their cancer can also cause health problems later on. Most treatment side effects appear during or just ...

Childhood Cancer Survivors: What to Expect After Treatment

After cancer treatment is completed, your child will continue to be checked by a pediatric oncology doctor at regularly scheduled follow up visits.

Transition Off Childhood Cancer Treatment - Together by St. Jude™

After cancer treatment ends, patients will return to their cancer center on regular basis for follow-up check-ups, tests, and scans. This follow-up period lasts ...

Late Effects of Treatment for Children's Cancer | CureSearch

Problems related to cancer treatment that occur or persist after treatment is completed are known as "late effects." Unfortunately, three out of five ...

Life After Childhood Cancer | Brown University Health

While our goal is to cure every child with minimal side effects, unfortunately, some children might not respond well to treatment. Complications ...

Life after childhood cancer - what issues do survivors have to ...

People who have survived childhood cancer might be in some form of follow up care for the rest of their lives. Whilst this support is essential, ...

Severe fatigue after treatment for childhood cancer - PubMed Central

Most patients will develop late effects after cessation of treatment. Severe fatigue is seen as a common and debilitating late effect in cancer survivors.

Follow-Up Care For Childhood Cancer Survivors

Two years after the end of treatment, many childhood cancer survivors transition to receiving long-term, specialized care at a survivorship clinic with a ...

Reproductive Outcomes for Survivors of Childhood Cancer - PMC

Infertility remains one of the most common and life-altering complications experienced by adults treated for cancer during childhood. Surgery, radiation, or ...

Late Effects of Cancer and Cancer Treatment (for Parents)

Lung, liver, or kidney problems. Childhood cancer treatments have been linked to several types of body organ damage later in life. How serious the organ damage ...

Late Effects of Childhood Cancer and Treatment

Long-term studies of this population have brought to light specific adverse effects of treatment, which are often present years after treatment ...

Cancer survivors: Late effects of cancer treatment - Mayo Clinic

What cancer treatments cause late effects? · Blood clots · Hot flashes · Increased risk of other cancers · Menopausal symptoms · Osteoporosis · Sexual side effects.

Treatments for childhood cancer can devastate lives years later ...

Doctors and researchers are working to better understand the long-term complications of chemotherapy and radiation, and even prevent them.

Pediatric Cancer > Fact Sheets > Yale Medicine

Pediatric cancers although common are highly treatable. Radiation therapy can be used safely and effectively to treat a variety of cancers that affect ...

Day-to-day life during and after childhood cancer

It is important for both the patient and parents to maintain contact with school, teachers and school friends whilst having cancer treatment. During treatment, ...

Cardiac (Heart) Late Effects in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Some childhood cancer treatments may cause heart problems after treatment ends. These are called cardiac late effects. Cardiac means "related to the heart.".

Advancing mental health aftercare for pediatric cancer patients

Pathways After Cancer Treatment (PACT), a new bridge clinic at CHOC, helps support the mental health of teen and young adult cancer patients.


Autobiography of a Face

Book by Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood.