Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Survivors at greater risk for cardiac death, prediabetes
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The campaign is intended to spotlight the types of cancer that largely affect children, draw attention to survivorship issues, and raise money for research and family support.
In conjunction with this observance, Healio presents the following updates in pediatric oncology that may be important to your practice.
1. Children and young adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia increasingly receive tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah, Novartis) in earlier settings when they have lower disease burden. This has resulted in less frequent use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Read more.
2. Underweight childhood cancer survivors exhibited increased risk for late mortality. Read more.
3. Time between therapy regimens can safely be offered to certain children with cancer to promote quality of life and explore goals of care without negatively affecting survival. Read more.
4. Most childhood cancer survivors are not up to date on guideline-recommended screening for late effects of cancer treatment or second malignancies. Read more.
5. A multi-institutional team of researchers created a statistical model capable of predicting the risk for premature menopause among women who survived childhood cancer. Read more.
6. Greater emphasis should be placed on addressing socioeconomic difficulties that childhood cancer survivors face. Read more.
7. Childhood cancer survivors appeared significantly more likely than the general public to die after a major cardiovascular event. Read more.
8. Childhood cancer survivors had a significantly higher prevalence of smoking than the general population. Read more.
9. Gestational substance abuse appeared linked to certain cancers among children. Read more.
10. Survivors of childhood cancer are more likely to have prediabetes at younger ages than the general public, increasing their already elevated risk for diabetes and cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Read more.
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