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Dr Ehrhardt discusses how modifiable chronic health conditions may relate to social determinants of health, noting how these factors can potentially lead to late mortality for survivors of childhood cancer.
A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study provides strong evidence of the importance of a healthy lifestyle for adults who were treated for cancer as children.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have found that socioeconomic deprivation, the presence of treatable chronic health conditions and frailty are independently associated with increased late mortality in childhood cancer survivors.
Date Time Excellent outcomes reported for first targeted frontline therapy for high-risk pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (From left) First and corresponding author Monika Metzger, M.D., Departments of Oncology and Global Pediatric Medicine; co- senior author Matthew Krasin, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology; and co-senior author Melissa Hudson, M.D., Cancer Survivorship Division director. Scientists are reporting results of the first frontline clinical trial to use targeted therapy to treat high-risk pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma. The study showed that the addition of brentuximab vedotin achieve...