Endocrine Abstracts

Cancer patients now live nearly six times longer after their cancer diagnosis than was the case 40 years ago with the median survival time increasing from one year to six years (Macmillan Cancer Support Nov 2011). Indeed in 2009 it was estimated that around 2 million people were alive in the UK with a cancer diagnosis, rising by 3% a year (Maddams et al. 2009). Whilst most cancer survivors report excellent or good health, recent published evidence indicate that cancer s...

Background: Increasing numbers of children and adults are surviving cancer and living with the consequences of their disease or its treatment. The commonest long term consequences observed following childhood cancer are endocrine and there is a growing body of evidence indicating that adults treated for malignant disease are also at risk of endocrine dysfunction.Aim: To determine the involvement of Endocrinologists in the management of cancer survivors a...

Background: Life expectancy of cancer survivors has doubled in the past four decades; however, death due to cardiovascular disease is more prevalent in survivors than the general population.Objective, design and methods: We evaluated novel and traditional cardiometabolic risk factors in young male cancer survivors in a cross-sectional study of male cancer survivors aged 25–45 years compared with age-matched non-cancer controls. Demographic and anthr...