title: The course of five-year survivors of cancer in childhood.
abstract: A follow-up study was made of two independent series of 1,807 and 425 children who were alive five years after diagnosis of a malignant neoplasm. Over the subsequent 20 years (5 to 24 years after initial diagnosis), actuarial survival rates for the cohorts were 83% and 79%, respectively, compared to 97% for matched control subjects in the general population (P less than 0.01). Cure was achieved in a large majority of the 5-year relapse-free survivors of cancer in this study.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000401:mortality; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000401:mortality; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000401:mortality; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000401:mortality; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D013997:Time Factors; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000401:mortality