Surviving childhood cancer treatment

In a British cohort, 30% of patients who had survived childhood cancer had died within 45 years of diagnosis; only 6% were expected to have died. 51% had developed a new primary cancer, but a 26% died of cardiovascular disease - thought to be caused by their treatment. Consequently, efforts to reduce long term mortality have focused on reducing exposure to the most toxic aspects of anticancer treatment, including radiotherapy. In this podcast we’re joined by Daniel Mulrooney, associate professor in the Division of Cancer Survivorship, at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and one of the authors of the paper Major cardiac events for adult survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970 and 1999: report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort Read the full research:

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6794