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Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 11/05/2009
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Changes to This Summary (11/05/2009)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Common Late Effects of Childhood Cancer by Body System 1

Added text 2 to state that patients who have received IT chemotherapy without cranial radiation as CNS therapy appear to have a low incidence of neurocognitive sequelae (cited Jansen et al., Espy et al., Copeland et al., von der Weid et al., Waber et al., and Kadan-Lottick et al., as references 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39, respectively).

Added Armenian et al. as reference 132 3.

Added Mattano et al. as reference 259 4.

Added Kaste et al. as reference 272 5.



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1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional
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2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional
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3http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional
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4http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional
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5http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional
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