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Pediatric cancer survivors at risk for competing causes of death

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Pediatric cancer survivors at risk for competing causes of death HemOnc Today via Healio For children with cancer, the short-term imperative is to effectively treat the primary disease and prevent mortality and possible recurrence. However, in the years following successful treatment, survivors of certain types of pediatric cancers become more likely to die of causes other than the primary malignancy, with risk for death due to those other factors — such as heart disease, suicide and sepsis — rising throughout their lives, according to study results published in Cancer. READ MORE

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