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AYA, Pediatric Cancer Survivors
“These realizations allowed participants to piece together their understanding of cancer survivors and the health risks they now faced in a gradual way, months or even years after HCT…” Adolescent
Continue readingAYA Survivors Face Real Risk of More Cancer
“...researchers observed what they called “a steep increase” in the incidence of solid tumors among these survivors (AYA) more than 15 years after completion of cancer therapy I don’t know
Continue readingCongestive Heart Failure – Myeloma Survivor
“The general consensus is that…a decrease in LVEF by more than 10 percentage points to a value <50%, or clinical manifestations with signs and symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Continue readingPediatric/AYA Psychological Side Effects
“The results revealed a higher relative risk of psychiatric hospital contact among survivors compared with siblings and matched individuals, and the risk remained elevated in survivors at 50 years
Continue readingAdolescent and Young Adult Cancer – Psychosocial Care
I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at the age of 34. Technically speaking I was in the Adolescent and Young Adult age group. David Emerson Cancer Survivor Cancer Coach Director PeopleBeatingCancer The
Continue readingPediatric Cancer-Cranial Irradiation, Stroke
“The incidence of neurovascular events in this population is 100-fold higher than in the general pediatric population and cranial irradiation is an important risk factor” I’m going to
Continue readingPediatric Cancer Survivors Incr, Have Morbidities
Reduce Long-Term and Late Stage Side Effects from Pediatric Cancer Therapies Episode 1, Magic Bullets in the Ken Burns documentary “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” vividly portrays how
Continue readingCan Childhood, AYA Cancer Survivors Heal Frailty, Cognitive Decline?
I am an AYA survivor. I was first diagnosed at 34- pretty old as AYA patients go but I still fall into the AYA category. More importantly, I have lived with long-term and late stage side effects since
Continue readingAYA Surviving Stem Cell Transplant- Therapy Plan
“AYA (and Pediatric Survivors) who undergo hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo, auto SCT) are at significant risk for long-term and late effects in survivorship.” Boy, is that an understatement.
Continue readingAYA, Childhood Cancer- Risk of Heart Disease
“About 4.5 percent of the childhood cancer survivors had cardiovascular diseases like heart failure and blood clots in the deep veins of the legs, and most cases occurred before age 40, almost eight
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