TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges after curative treatment for childhood cancer and long-term follow up of survivors
AU - Oeffinger, Kevin C.
AU - Nathan, Paul C.
AU - Kremer, Leontien C. M.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk of serious morbidity, premature mortality, and diminished health status. Proactive and anticipatory risk-based health care of survivors and healthy lifestyles can reduce these risks. In this article, the authors first briefly discuss four common problems of survivors: neurocognitive dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, infertility and gonadal dysfunction, and psychosocial problems. Second, the authors discuss the concept of risk-based care, promote the use of recently developed evidence-based guidelines, describe current care in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, and articulate a model for shared survivor care that aims to optimize life long health of survivors and improve two-way communication between the cancer center and the primary care physician
AB - Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk of serious morbidity, premature mortality, and diminished health status. Proactive and anticipatory risk-based health care of survivors and healthy lifestyles can reduce these risks. In this article, the authors first briefly discuss four common problems of survivors: neurocognitive dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, infertility and gonadal dysfunction, and psychosocial problems. Second, the authors discuss the concept of risk-based care, promote the use of recently developed evidence-based guidelines, describe current care in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, and articulate a model for shared survivor care that aims to optimize life long health of survivors and improve two-way communication between the cancer center and the primary care physician
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2007.10.009
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2007.10.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18242324
SN - 0031-3955
VL - 55
SP - 251-73, xiii
JO - Pediatric clinics of North America
JF - Pediatric clinics of North America
IS - 1
ER -