As medical advances in oncology enable more patients to beat tumors, greater attention is being paid to secondary effects from treatment.
Leontien Kremer shifted the entire focus of her work as a young doctor in 1997 after an encounter she had with a cured cancer patient., but then he came back a fewer years later with severe heart failure," said Kremer, a pediatrician at a Dutch children's hospital called the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht.in the Netherlands. She discovered that one in 20 patients treated with a type of anticancer drug developed heart failure as many as 30 years after treatment.
Delayed harm to health stems from chemo and radiation therapy. While these powerful treatments kill cancer cells, they also injure healthy ones. Giovanni knows about cancer from both sides of the doctor's desk. He was diagnosed with early kidney cancer 12 years ago. Such information can help align standards across Europe, where the quality of care that cancer patients and survivors receive varies."There is long-term follow-up care only in some countries," said Girbu, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer after birth and underwent his first surgery at the age of 6 months, when his right kidney was removed.
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