Conditional survival in pediatric malignancies: Analysis of data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

Abstract

The risk of death among survivors of pediatric cancer in 10 years can vary between diagnosis groups by at most 12%, even up to 20 years after diagnosis. This information is clinically significant when counseling patients regarding their conditional survival, particularly when survivors are seen in long-term follow-up.