Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk for ongoing post-therapy GI complications
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Patients who received therapy for cancer during childhood have an increased risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) complications later in life, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Compared with their siblings, cancer survivors had an increased risk of late-onset complications of the upper GI tract, lower GI tract and liver.