Continued Monitoring Helps Young Cancer Survivors Avoid Risks
- OPACC
- May 22, 2015
- 1 min read
Children diagnosed with cancer are living longer, better lives. But the very treatments that help them dance into adulthood can also put them at risk later in life. Dr. Youmna Othman, a pediatric oncologist with Topeka's Stormont-Vail Cancer Center, says young cancer survivors must be monitored to see what impact various chemotherapy drugs, radiations and surgeries had on their bodies.
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