SynthesisSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2009
Quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer: a systematic review of the literature (2001-2008).
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- Mapping and comparing the quality of life outcomes in childhood and adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: an umbrella review and future directions.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- The Prevalence and Associated Factors of Cancer-Related Worries in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Systematic Review.Psycho-oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Health-related quality of life of survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018Pooled it
- Identifying determinants of quality of life of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2011Pooled it
- Management of late toxicities and specific follow-up needs of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: recommendations from scientific societies in Spain.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Overall Good Quality of Life Reported by Survivors of Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sweden and Finland.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Factors Related to Parent and Child Health-Related Quality of Life Among Infants and Toddlers with Cancer.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2026Article
- The impact of clinically relevant health conditions on psychosocial outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer: results of the DCCSS-LATER study.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
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- Sarcoma Assessment Measure-Paediatric Version (SAM-Paeds): development of a disease-specific patient reported outcome measure for children with sarcoma.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Article
- Parent-reported health-related quality of life in pediatric childhood cancer survivors and factors associated with poor health-related quality of life in aftercare.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Observational
- A joint international consensus statement for measuring quality of survival for patients with childhood cancer.Nature medicine · 2023Review
- Self-reported outcomes on oral health and oral health-related quality of life in long-term childhood cancer survivors-A DCCSS-LATER 2 Study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Thyroid hormone triiodothyronine does not protect ovarian reserve from DNA damage induced by X-ray and cisplatin.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2023Article
- Ten Considerations for Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Care for Childhood Cancer Survivors.Cancers · 2023Review
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- A Review of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Childhood Cancer.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Development and Validation of Models to Predict Poor Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- The impact of CNS-directed treatment on quality of life in childhood cancer survivors.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Identification of Evidence for Key Positive Psychological Constructs in Pediatric and Adolescent/Young Adult Patients with Cancer: A Scoping Review.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this paper was to provide a comprehensive, contemporary systematic review of studies that have examined the quality of life (QOL) of survivors of childhood cancer in order to extend upon the findings of earlier reviews. MATERIALS AND
methodsA review was conducted that used the databases MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, and CINAHL. Articles were included that were published in English between 2001 and 2008 and used quantitative measures and statistical tests to compare health-related quality of life (HRQL) or QOL of childhood cancer survivors with population norms or matched comparison groups.
resultsThirteen studies were identified. Findings were contradictory across studies, yet by and large, reflected those of past reviews. In general, survivors' scores on subscales representing physical, psychological, and social domains of HRQL/QOL were similar to comparisons, with the greatest differences being in physical well-being. Key personal and environmental factors were negatively correlated with the three domains across studies for survivors including: older age at diagnosis, longer time since diagnosis, certain cancer and treatment types, female gender, and a number of socioeconomic factors.
conclusionsLack of comparability across studies remains a problem due to wide variation in study focus and designs. Conceptual and methodological issues include: use of numerous HRQOL and QOL measures, lack of distinction between conceptualization and measurement of HRQL and QOL, lack of initial qualitative input from survivors about QOL, little examination of the influence of environmental factors on QOL, little attention to survivors' satisfaction with life quality, use of small heterogeneous samples, and need for population-based longitudinal studies.
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