Challenges facing survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer

Cancer Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 186-193

  Wheeler, Greg ^a,b,c   Thompson, Kate ^a   Samers, Josephine ^d   Seymour, John F ^a,c  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTILEUKEMIC AGENT; ANTIMETABOLITE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AGING; ALOPECIA; BLADDER CANCER; BONE GROWTH; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CATARACTOGENESIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY MENOPAUSE; EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GLAUCOMA; GLIOMA; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPLASIA; INFECTION RISK; INFERTILITY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTESTINE CANCER; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOMA; MENINGIOMA; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL DETERIORATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NERVE CELL LESION; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROTEINURIA; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIATION STERILIZATION; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SCAR FORMATION; SECOND CANCER; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKIN CANCER; SKULL IRRADIATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTIS CANCER; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY FREQUENCY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 71949128714     PISSN: 0311306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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