children who are treated successfully for cancer are more at risk of developing severe mild gastrointestinal problems on the road, a new study concludes.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco analyzed the self-reported gastrointestinal (GI) problems of 14,358 patients surviving at least five years after the treatment of cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, tumors of the brain or bone tumours.
More than 40 per cent have experienced some type of problem of IM - including ulcers, the disease of the esophagus, indigestion, polyps, chronic diarrhea, colitis, gallstones and jaundice - in two decades of their treatment, researchers have discovered.
In addition, people with cancer at a later age and who had to undergo a more rigorous treatment (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery) were more likely to experience problems IM long term, according to the study of the may issue of Gastroenterology.
About one in 500 young adults in the United States is a survivor of childhood cancer, the study authors noted in a press release UCSF.
"While doctors continue to learn more about pediatric cancer and its treatment long term consequences, it is essential that we provide care of comprehensive follow-up that adequately addresses the complications can meet the cancer survivors.""," study lead author Dr. Robert Goldsby, specialist of pediatric cancer hospital for children of Benioff UCSF and Director of the UCSF Cancer of childhood survivors program, said in the press release.
"These are serious issues that can have a real impact on the quality of life of the person," added Goldsby.
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