By Savannah Koplon
Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) are at an increased risk of developing an entirely new cancer later in life, according to new research published in Cancer — the American Cancer Society’s international peer-reviewed scientific journal — and conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
While previous studies on childhood survivors have indicated this increased risk, none has explored the nature of cancer risk beyond 25 years post-diagnosis, says Smita Bhatia, M.D., director of the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship and lead author of the paper.
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