Endocrine Abstracts

In the US approximately 12,400 individuals <age 20 years are diagnosed with cancer yearly. Current 5-yr survival rates are in excess of 70%;it is estimated that there are 250,000 survivors of childhood cancer in the US today. These remarkable survival rates are due, in large part, to advances in cancer therapy that have occurred over the past 30 years. The vast majority of children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer are exposed to multi-modality therapy. Unfortunately, l...