Marta G Podda, Cristina Meazza, Giovanna Gattuso, Giovanna Sironi, Olga Nigro, Luca Bergamaschi, Veronica Biassoni, Michela Casanova, Stefano Chiaravalli, Andrea Ferrari, Roberto Luksch, Nadia Puma, Elisabetta Schiavello, Filippo Spreafico, Paolo Grampa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sabina Vennarini, Paola Collini, Primo A Daolio, Massimiliano Gennaro, Marco Guzzo, Carlo Morosi, Davide Biasoni, Maura Massimino, Monica Terenziani
Each year approximately 35,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer in Europe. Five-year survival rates have improved and now reach 80% in most European countries, thanks to a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. To date, there are more than 44,000 Italians still living several years after being diagnosed with cancer in developmental age. The risk of premature morbidity and mortality for cancer survivors is well known and documented. Approximately 60% of survivors of cancer in childhood and adolescence have at least one chronic health condition in later life, and more than one in four develop severe or life-threatening disorders...
March 24, 2023: Tumori