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A worldwide collaboration to harmonize guidelines for the long‐term follow‐up of childhood and young adult cancer survivors: A report from the international late effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group |
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| Authors: | Leontien C.M. Kremer MD PhD Kevin C. Oeffinger MD Smita Bhatia MD MPH Wendy Landier RN PhD Gill Levitt MD Louis S. Constine MD W. Hamish Wallace MD Huib N. Caron MD PhD Saro H. Armenian MD MPH Roderick Skinner MB PhD Melissa M. Hudson MD |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York;3. Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California;4. Department of Oncology/Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK;5. Departments of Radiation Oncology and Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York;6. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK;7. Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Haematology and Oncology, Great North Children's Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK;8. Departments of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, and Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Abstract: | Childhood and young adult cancer survivors should receive optimum care to reduce the consequences of late effects and improve quality of life. We can facilitate achieving this goal by international collaboration in guideline development. In 2010, the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group was initiated. The aim of the harmonization endeavor is to establish a common vision and integrated strategy for the surveillance of late effects in childhood and young adult cancer survivors. With the implementation of our evidence‐based methods, we provide a framework for the harmonization of guidelines for the long‐term follow‐up of childhood and young adult cancer survivors. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2013; 60: 543–549. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
| Keywords: | childhood and young adult cancer survivors collaboration guidelines late effects |