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The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to provide an overview of the current status of the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of select childhood cancers, including different types of malignant solid tumors, in the U.S. population under age 18 and the relative levels of functional limitation typically associated with the cancers, common treatments, and other considerations.
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Childhood Cancer and Functional Impacts Across the Care Continuum
Consensus Study Report
·2021
Since the late 1960s, the survival rate in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer has steadily improved, with a corresponding decline in the cancer-specific death rate. Although the improvements in survival are encouraging, they have come at the cost of acute, chronic, and late adverse effec...
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