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Gastrointestinal and liver disease in Adult Life After Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia : A population-based cohort study

Asdahl, Peter Haubjerg ; Winther, Jeanette Falck ; Bonnesen, Trine Gade ; De Fine Licht, Sofie ; Gudmundsdottir, Thorgerdur ; Holmqvist, Anna Sällfors LU ; Malila, Nea ; Tryggvadottir, Laufey ; Wesenberg, Finn and Dahlerup, Jens Frederik , et al. (2016) In International Journal of Cancer 139(7). p.1501-1511
Abstract

Survival after childhood cancer diagnosis has remarkably improved, but emerging evidence suggests that cancer-directed therapy may have adverse gastrointestinal late effects. We aimed to comprehensively assess the frequency of gastrointestinal and liver late effects among childhood cancer survivors and compare this frequency with the general population. Our population-based cohort study included all 1-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden diagnosed from the 1940s and 1950s. Our outcomes of interest were hospitalization rates for gastrointestinal and liver diseases, which were ascertained from national patient registries. We calculated standardized hospitalization rate ratios... (More)

Survival after childhood cancer diagnosis has remarkably improved, but emerging evidence suggests that cancer-directed therapy may have adverse gastrointestinal late effects. We aimed to comprehensively assess the frequency of gastrointestinal and liver late effects among childhood cancer survivors and compare this frequency with the general population. Our population-based cohort study included all 1-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden diagnosed from the 1940s and 1950s. Our outcomes of interest were hospitalization rates for gastrointestinal and liver diseases, which were ascertained from national patient registries. We calculated standardized hospitalization rate ratios (RRs) and absolute excess rates comparing hospitalizations of any gastrointestinal or liver disease and for specific disease entities between survivors and the general population. The study included 31,132 survivors and 207,041 comparison subjects. The median follow-up in the hospital registries were 10 years (range: 0-42) with 23% of the survivors being followed at least to the age of 40 years. Overall, survivors had a 60% relative excess of gastrointestinal or liver diseases [RR: 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6-1.7], which corresponds to an absolute excess of 360 (95% CI: 330-390) hospitalizations per 100,000 person-years. Survivors of hepatic tumors, neuroblastoma and leukemia had the highest excess of gastrointestinal and liver diseases. In addition, we observed a relative excess of several specific diseases such as esophageal stricture (RR: 13; 95% CI: 9.2-20) and liver cirrhosis (RR: 2.9; 95% CI: 2.0-4.1). Our findings provide useful information about the breadth and magnitude of late complications among childhood cancer survivors and can be used for generating hypotheses about potential exposures related to these gastrointestinal and liver late effects.

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Cancer epidemiology, Childhood cancer, Gastrointestinal disease, Late effects, Survivorship
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International Journal of Cancer
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139
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7
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11 pages
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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  • pmid:27194488
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0020-7136
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10.1002/ijc.30198
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>Survival after childhood cancer diagnosis has remarkably improved, but emerging evidence suggests that cancer-directed therapy may have adverse gastrointestinal late effects. We aimed to comprehensively assess the frequency of gastrointestinal and liver late effects among childhood cancer survivors and compare this frequency with the general population. Our population-based cohort study included all 1-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden diagnosed from the 1940s and 1950s. Our outcomes of interest were hospitalization rates for gastrointestinal and liver diseases, which were ascertained from national patient registries. We calculated standardized hospitalization rate ratios (RRs) and absolute excess rates comparing hospitalizations of any gastrointestinal or liver disease and for specific disease entities between survivors and the general population. The study included 31,132 survivors and 207,041 comparison subjects. The median follow-up in the hospital registries were 10 years (range: 0-42) with 23% of the survivors being followed at least to the age of 40 years. Overall, survivors had a 60% relative excess of gastrointestinal or liver diseases [RR: 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6-1.7], which corresponds to an absolute excess of 360 (95% CI: 330-390) hospitalizations per 100,000 person-years. Survivors of hepatic tumors, neuroblastoma and leukemia had the highest excess of gastrointestinal and liver diseases. In addition, we observed a relative excess of several specific diseases such as esophageal stricture (RR: 13; 95% CI: 9.2-20) and liver cirrhosis (RR: 2.9; 95% CI: 2.0-4.1). Our findings provide useful information about the breadth and magnitude of late complications among childhood cancer survivors and can be used for generating hypotheses about potential exposures related to these gastrointestinal and liver late effects.</p>}},
  author       = {{Asdahl, Peter Haubjerg and Winther, Jeanette Falck and Bonnesen, Trine Gade and De Fine Licht, Sofie and Gudmundsdottir, Thorgerdur and Holmqvist, Anna Sällfors and Malila, Nea and Tryggvadottir, Laufey and Wesenberg, Finn and Dahlerup, Jens Frederik and Olsen, Jørgen Helge and Hasle, Henrik}},
  issn         = {{0020-7136}},
  keywords     = {{Cancer epidemiology; Childhood cancer; Gastrointestinal disease; Late effects; Survivorship}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  number       = {{7}},
  pages        = {{1501--1511}},
  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{International Journal of Cancer}},
  title        = {{Gastrointestinal and liver disease in Adult Life After Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia : A population-based cohort study}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30198}},
  doi          = {{10.1002/ijc.30198}},
  volume       = {{139}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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