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BACKGROUNDLittle is known about infections among adult survivors of childhood cancer. The authors report the occurrence of infections and risk factors for infections in a large cohort of survivors of childhood cancer.
METHODSThe Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort was used to compare incidence rates of infections among 12,360 5‐year survivors of childhood cancer with the rates of 4023 siblings...
Background
Health outcomes of children in families affected by cancer are poorly understood. The authors assessed the risk of hospitalization in children who have a sibling with cancer.
Methods
This was a longitudinal cohort study in which 1600 children who had a sibling with cancer were matched to 32,000 children who had unaffected siblings in Quebec, Canada, from 2006 to 2020. The exposure of...
Background
Infections cause significant treatment‐related morbidity during pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (ALL/LLy) therapy. Fevers during periods without severe neutropenia are common, but etiologies are not well‐described. This study sought to describe the bloodstream infection (BSI) and non‐BSI risk in children undergoing therapy for ALL/LLy.
Methods
Demographic and clinical...
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