Pain and functional outcomes in adult survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although survivors of childhood cancer are at risk of chronic pain, the impact of pain on daily functioning is not well understood.

Methods

A total of 2836 survivors (mean age, 32.2 years [SD, 8.5 years]; mean time since diagnosis, 23.7 years [SD, 8.2 years]) and 343 noncancer community controls (mean age, 35.5 years [SD, 10.2 years]) underwent comprehensive medical, neurocognitive, and physical performance assessments, and completed measures of pain, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and social functioning. Multinomial logistic regression models, using odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs), examined associations between diagnosis, treatment exposures, chronic health conditions, and pain. Relative risks (RRs) between pain and neurocognition, phy

SUBMITTER: Tonning Olsson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8281361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature