Life Expectancy of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Over 3 Decades.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Advances in childhood and adolescent cancer treatment have been associated with increased rates of cure during the past 3 decades; however, improvement in adult life expectancy for these individuals has not yet been reported.

Objectives

To project long-term survival and assess whether life expectancy will improve among adult survivors of childhood cancer who were treated in more recent decades.

Design, setting, and participants

A microsimulation model of competing mortality risks was developed using data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study on 5-year survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970 and 1999. The model included (1) late recurrence, (2) treatment-related late effects (health-related [subsequent cancers, cardiac events, pulmonary condi

SUBMITTER: Yeh JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990848 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature