The therapies leave survivors at increased risk for developing second cancers, heart failure and other serious health problems. (stjude.org)
During the same period, deaths from the late effects of treatment declined from 3.5 percent to 2.1 percent due to declining death rates from second cancers, lung or heart problems. (stjude.org)
In addition to the risk of second cancers decades later, radiation to growing bones and organs could impede normal development, and radiation to the brain, a common site of pediatric cancers, often resulted in impairments to learning and other cognitive brain functions. (hopkinsmedicine.org)