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Survivors of Childhood Leukemia with Down Syndrome Have Unique Health Risks, Benefits

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University of California San Francisco

11/03/2017

Doctors have long recognized that children with Down syndrome are significantly more susceptible to leukemia, and have believed that they also were at higher risk of treatment-related chronic conditions. Now, new research led by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, with data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, challenges this belief and offers fresh insights into survivorship.

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