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11503310

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
30
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-8-15
pubmed:abstractText
In a recent report by the Society of Integral Cancer Centres in the Netherlands, attention was devoted to the incidence of cancer in children and the mortality arising from this. In recent years the growing diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities have changed the perspective of childhood cancer enormously. Based on a careful classification and clinical staging, national and international investigations have resulted in new and successful therapeutical strategies. Overall prognoses of childhood cancer have improved dramatically from a 5-year survival rate in the 1960s and 1970s of less than 30%, to an 8-year survival rate of more than 70% between 1989 and 1997. However, this success means that more investigations into the long-term effects of childhood cancer and its treatment are needed. In a study at the Amsterdam University Hospital, 700 adult survivors of childhood cancer were reinvestigated of whom over 75% experienced one or more clinically relevant long-term effects. A continuous survey for long-term effects is needed for the development of new therapeutic strategies, which allow children treated for cancer to develop with the same possibilities in life as their healthy peers.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
dut
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0028-2162
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
145
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1442-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
[Childhood cancers in the Netherlands (1989-1997)].
pubmed:affiliation
Emma Kinderziekenhuis/Academisch Medisch Centrum, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam. h.s.heymans@amc.uva.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review