Endocrine Abstracts

Dramatic improvements in cancer survival over the past four decades means that greater than 80% of children diagnosed with cancer can expect to survive for more than five years. For some cancers, such as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and Hodgkin’s disease, cure rates exceed 90%. Currently, there are over 26000 young adults living in the UK, 600 000 across France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands and the Nordic countries and 363 000 in the US, who are survivors of childhood...