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Background
There is limited understanding of associations between a combination of health behaviors (physical activity, sedentary/screen‐time, diet) and cardiometabolic health risk factors, physical performance, and emotional health among young (<18) childhood cancer survivors (CCS). The aims of this research were to address this gap by 1) deriving health behavior adherence profiles among CCS,...
Background
Data on primary hypothyroidism and its long‐term impact on the health, cognition, and quality of life (QOL) of childhood cancer survivors are limited. This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for primary hypothyroidism and its associations with physical, neurocognitive, and psychosocial outcomes.
Methods
This was a retrospective study with a cross‐sectional health outcome...
Background
Limited data exist regarding left ventricular remodeling patterns observed in adult survivors of childhood cancer after therapy.
Methods
Among 1190 adult survivors diagnosed with childhood cancer (median age at diagnosis, 9 years [interquartile range (IQR), 3.8‐14.4 years]; age at evaluation, 35.6 years [IQR, 29.5‐42.8 years]), treatment exposures included anthracyclines (n = 346), chest...
BACKGROUNDSurvivors of childhood cancer who are treated with platinum‐based chemotherapy and/or cranial radiation are at risk of treatment‐induced hearing loss. However, the effects of such hearing loss on adult social attainment have not been well elucidated.
METHODSAdult survivors of pediatric central nervous system (CNS) solid tumors (180 survivors) and non‐CNS solid tumors (226 survivors) who...
BACKGROUNDRetinoblastoma has a 5‐year survival rate exceeding 95%, yet little is known about long‐term functional outcomes for these patients.
METHODSSixty‐nine adult survivors of retinoblastoma (mean age, 33 years; mean years post‐diagnosis, 31) who had enrolled in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study completed clinical cognitive evaluations and questionnaires assessing adult social attainment. Scores...
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