Friday 29 May 2009

Child cancer survivors face increased cancer risk later in life

Cancer Research UK
People who survived cancer during childhood continue to have a slightly higher risk of developing cancer throughout their lifetime, a Danish study has found.
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen studied data on 47,697 people in the Nordic countries between 1943 and 2005, all of whom had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20 years.

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