Cohort Profile: The Socioeconomic Consequences in Adult Life After Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia (SALiCCS) Research Programme.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The growing number of survivors of childhood cancer, with many years of life ahead, demonstrates the increasing clinical and public health relevance of investigating the risks of social and socioeconomic impairment after a childhood cancer diagnosis and the life-saving treatment. To enrich understanding of the mental, social and socioeconomic difficulties that childhood cancer survivors may face during their life-course, identify particularly vulnerable survivors and overcome the limitations of previous research, we initiated the Socioeconomic Consequences in Adult Life after Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia (SALiCCS) research programme.

Methods

This Nordic cross-border research programme is a collaboration between the Danish Cancer Society, the Finnish Cancer Re

SUBMITTER: Erdmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8662544 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature