<p>According to a survey-based study published by <a href="https://www.wiley.com/" target=" blank">Wiley</a> online in <em><a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10970142?dmmsmid=73865&dmmspid=22624228&dmmsuid=1961220" target=" blank">CANCER</a></em>, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and young adult cancer survivors in the United States are more likely to report experiencing chronic health conditions than their heterosexual peers with a history of cancer as well as their LGB peers without a past cancer diagnosis.</p>
Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors who received cardiotoxic treatments exhibited a high burden of poor cardiac function, according to study results presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.
The cross-sectional study included 127 cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines or radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma or sarcoma as adolescents or young adults (AYA).