title: Pediatric low-grade glioma survivors experience high quality of life.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to determine pediatric low-grade glioma survivors' quality of life and late morbidity including motor, sensory, and cognitive deficits.
  
  
  METHODS
  We surveyed 49 survivors and their parents (KINDL questionnaire).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Despite tumor and treatment-associated morbidity, survivors (25 boys and 24 girls, median age at diagnosis 7.8 years), but not their parents, rated their total quality of life higher than their peers. Although all survivors had some late morbidity, half of them were able to conduct their daily lives without restriction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results reflect survivors' effective coping mechanisms and underscore the difficulties of assessing quality of life in pediatric populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Lindy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Musial-Bright
authors.forename: Louisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Panteli
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hernáiz Driever
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*