Researchers Find Tool That Can Predict Risk of Secondary Cancer Development in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
A new study has discovered a tool that can identify cancer survivors who have syndromes that predispose them to cancer and heighten their risk of subsequent cancer development. The research, which was published in the “Journal of Clinical Oncology,” notes that the tool had proven to be effective in patients who hadn’t been exposed to radiation during treatment of their primary malignancies as well as in survivors of central nervous system tumors and solid tumors. The tool integrates the specific features of tumors as well as the family and clinical history of every patient and feeds them into the tumor-particular…