title: The monitoring of potential long-term comlications in treated adult cancer patients.
abstract: A wide variety of long-term complications may be noted following conventional cancer treatment. These include overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis syndrome, central and peripheral nervous system toxicity, cardiovascular complications, chronic liver damage, and secondary malignancy. Follow-up monitoring usually incorporates both physical examination and the result of radiological and laboratory investigations. Primary care physicians will often be responsible for the majority of the follow-up monitoring involving cured cancer patients and need to be aware of possible long-term therapy-related problems, especially those that present years after successful treatment of the original malignancy.
authors.affiliation: B.C. Cancer Agency, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Brigden