Related publication: Childhood cancer survivors at heightened risk of several autoimmune diseases

The Danish Cancer Society Research Center, project partner in PanCareLIFE, have recently published the first large-scale study of the lifetime risk for autoimmune diseases after childhood cancer, with risk estimates for a broad range of well-defined, medically verified autoimmune diseases. in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (Autoimmune diseases in Adult Life after Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia (ALiCCS) – Ann Rheum Dis. 2015 Nov 10. pii: annrheumdis-2015-207659).

You can read the press release here.

The first author Anna S. Holmqvist, MD, PhD from Lund in Sweden has also been interviewed for a news story in The Lancet Oncology.

See our Publications page for other PanCareLIFE related publications.