Study Confirms Pediatric Cancer Associated with Social Late Effects

October 15, 2009

Yale researchers published a study this month that estimated that pediatric cancer survivors are 20 to 25 percent more likely never to marry when compared to their siblings or the general marraige rate in the US population.  This is an innovative way to look at the long-term social effects of pediatric cancer, becuase it uses a recognizable social institution, marriage or partnership, as a clear benchmark.  

Dr. Nina Kadan-Lottick, Director of the Hero's Clinic at Yale, published the study in the October 2009 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Read about the study in the Yale Daily News - http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/scitech-news/2009/10/14/childhood-cancer-has-social-effects/

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