Bar graph showing the distribution of the cumulative burden of serious, disabling, and life-threatening chronic physical health conditions at ages 18 and 26. The x axis lists the primary cancer diagnosis by age (18 and 26). The y axis has the cumulative burden of certain health conditions, with a range from 0 to 4. In all cancers, burden is higher at age 26 compared to 18. CNS cancers have the highest burden at both ages, followed by Bone. Hodgkin Lymphoma and Wilms experience the least.

FIGURE 2-4Distribution of the cumulative burden of serious, disabling, and life-threatening chronic physical health conditions (severity grades 3 and 4 according to modification of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [Hudson et al., 2017]) at 18 and 26 years of age

SOURCES: Data are from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study (U01 CA195547) and generated from the dataset utilized in Bhakta et al., 2017, which describes the study population and methods.

From: 2, Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer in the United States

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Childhood Cancer and Functional Impacts Across the Care Continuum.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Health Care Services; Committee on Childhood Cancers and Disability; Aiuppa L, Cartaxo T, Spicer CM, et al., editors.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2020 Dec 9.
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