Chronic Health Conditions and Academic Achievement: A Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Report.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine associations between special education, chronic health conditions (CHCs), and college graduation in survivors of childhood cancer and their siblings.

Methods

Childhood Cancer Survivor Study participants included 23,082 5-year survivors (53.7% male; median [IQR] age at diagnosis, 6 [3-13] years; age at evaluation, 31.0 [24-39] years; treated between 1970 and 1999) and 5,037 siblings (47.7% male; 36.0 [28-44] years at evaluation). Special education use, reasons for special education, CHCs, and college graduation were self-reported. Primary cancer diagnosis and treatment exposures were abstracted from medical records. Comparisons between survivors and siblings were made using chi-square statistics; demographic and treatment factors associated with outcomes we

SUBMITTER: Bashore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12419484 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature