People who survive cancer during childhood and early adulthood are more likely to experience severe, ______________________. In fact, many of the survivors die before other people the same age.
Those are findings from a recent study. A report on the study was published this month in The Lancet Oncology. Researchers followed almost 12,000 young cancer survivors and about 5,000 of their siblings for about 20 years. ______________________.
The cancer survivors were ______________________. Yet they were still about six times more likely to die during the follow-up period than their siblings.