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Date Submitted:
12/11/07
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Childhood Leukemia Survivors at Long-Term Risk of Second Cancer
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The longest such study of its kind has found that people who survive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in childhood are at higher risk of developing a secondary cancer well into middle-age. The risk for these tumors only increases over time, the 30-year study found.
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