Survivors of pediatric cancer at increased risk for psychiatric disorders

Healio: Psychiatry/Pediatrics - December 3, 2021

"Compared with their siblings and matched cohorts, survivors had higher burden for recurrent psychiatric hospital contacts and had more hospital contacts for various psychiatric disorders. 'Childhood cancer survivors are at higher long-term risk of psychiatric disorders than their siblings and matched individuals from the general population,' [Line Elmerdahl Frederiksen, PhD, of the Danish Cancer Society Research Center,] and colleagues wrote." Read Article>>