Tuesday, July 01, 2014

CANCER - Pediatric Survivors' Lifetime Challenges

"Pediatric cancer survivors face lifetime of health challenges" PBS NewsHour 6/30/2014

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour):  Almost 80 percent of children who are diagnosed with cancer today in the U.S. survive, thanks in large part to advances in treatments like radiation and chemotherapy.

But a growing body of research indicates survivors are at greater risk for a host of health problems in later life, due to the very treatments that saved their lives.

The NewsHour’s Cat Wise has our report.

CAT WISE (Newshour):  Laura Allaire has her hands full these days.  A former nurse, she’s now a stay-at-home mom raising two young daughters in Orinda, California, just outside San Francisco.

Allaire, who is 33, exercises often and does yoga.  In many ways, she is the picture of health, but a decade ago, she was in a very different place.

LAURA ALLAIRE, Pediatric Cancer Survivor:  I was diagnosed when I was 12 years old with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

CAT WISE:  Allaire was in seventh grade when she learned she had cancer.  She kept a journal detailing a grueling year of hospital visits and treatments.



"Health ‘passport’ provides guide for pediatric cancer survivors" by Cat Wise, PBS NewsHour 6/30/2014

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