Psychiatric disorders in Nordic childhood cancer survivors
Menée dans trois pays nordiques (Danemark, Finlande et Suède) à partir de données portant sur 88 630 témoins en population et sur 18 621 patients ayant survécu 5 ans à un cancer pédiatrique diagnostiqué avant l'âge de 20 ans sur la période 1974-2011, cette étude analyse le risque de troubles psychiatriques
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, physical health is obviously threatened, butmental health problems can also evolve. Thanks to electronic administrative registers,which usually include information on an entire population, it is possible to studyrare exposures, such as childhood cancer. One remarkable register-based research programmeto investigate the consequences of childhood cancer is the Socioeconomic Consequencesin Adult Life after Childhood Cancer (SALiCCS) cohort, which combines data from Denmark,Finland, and Sweden to investigate several characteristics in long-term survivors. Although childhood cancer is rare, substantial improvements in treatment and survival have led to a growing populationof childhood cancer survivors, and the combination of population data from three countriesallows researchers to investigate this topic in detail.
The Lancet Psychiatry , commentaire, 2020