Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life

Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with cancer does not end with survival. Continued surveillance and a variety of interventions may, in many cases, be needed to identify and care for consequences of treatment that can appear early or only after several decades and impair survivors' health and quality of life.

The more than two-thirds of childhood cancer survivors who experience late effects—that is, complications, disabilities, or ...