Childhood Cancer Survivors Continue To Have Higher Mortality Rates than the General Population

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

Survivors of childhood or adolescent cancer have a greater than 8-fold increased risk of death than the general U.S. population 16 to 32 years after hitting the five-year survival mark.

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