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Volume 15 | ESPEYB15 | Next issue

Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

9 Oncology and chronic disease

Late consequences of tumour therapy: prevention and monitoring

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9.1 Late outcomes of adult survivors of childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A report from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

MJ Ehrhardt , JT Sandlund , N Zhang , W Liu , KK Ness , N Bhakta , W Chemaitilly , KR Krull , TM Brinkman , DB Crom , L Kun , SC Kaste , GT Armstrong , DM Green , K Srivastava , LL Robison , MM Hudson , DA Mulrooney

To read the full abstract: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017;64(6):e26338Through a comprehensive, risk-based clinical assessment and validation of medical events, this study provides a detailed heath status characterization of adult survivors of paediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Survivors showed an increased risk of suffering from one or more components of the metabolic syndrome (obesity 35%, hypertens...

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9.2 Anthropometry in Long-Term Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Childhood and Adolescence

L Collins , L Beaumont , A Cranston , S Savoie , T Nayiager , R Barr

To read the full abstract: J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2017;6:294-298The difficulties in defining obesity in childhood cancer survivors have been emphasised. In these patients, body mass index (BMI) has been confirmed to be a poor predictor of body fatness, because of their impaired linear growth, body composition changes (decreased lean mass and fat redistribution) and abdominal adiposity. Th...

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9.3 Growth and pubertal patterns in young survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

S Elitzur , R Houri-Shtrecher , M Yackobovitz-Gavan , G Avrahami , S Barzilai , G Gilad , Y Lebenthal , M Phillip , B Stark , I Yaniv , S Shalitin

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2017;30:869-877Several previous studies had focused on the early risk of metabolic syndrome or its components in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), while fewer data are available on pubertal development in these subjects. The merit of this study was to carefully investigate growth and pubertal development in a large ...