75% of all child cancer patients cured
Published: May 17, 2005
Two out of three children who beat cancer go on to develop other chronic health problems, ranging from heart disease to blindness, because of radiation and other treatments that saved their lives, a new study finds.
Cancer treatments have improved in recent years, so today’s patients shouldn’t suffer as many future problems, specialists say. Nevertheless, the research shows the medical burdens faced by those treated in the ’70s and ’80s.
More than 3 out of 4 children are cured of cancer today, up from 58 percent in 1975. ”But the individuals cured currently pay a large and unacceptable price for that,” said Dr. Harmon Eyre of the American Cancer Society.
Nearly 10 million Americans have survived cancer, including 270,000 who were diagnosed when they were 15 or younger.
Researchers studied 10,397 of them who were diagnosed and treated between 1970 and 1986. By age 45, cancer survivors were two to six times more likely than healthy siblings to develop various health problems
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