FOLLOW-UP OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG-ADULTS CU RED FROM CANCER - FIRST RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE LATE EFFECTS WORKING GROUP

An increasing number of children suffering from cancer has been treate d successfully during the last 25 years using therapy protocolls of th e Gesellschaft fur Padiatrische Onkologie und Hamatologie. The patient s had to undergo an interdisciplinary treatment modality and a mostly intensive chemotherapy. Late effects could result from this approach f or the now 20 000 survivors in the Federal Republik of Germany. The ex ecutive committee of the GPOH founded a working group for the detectio n of late effects stretching over all therapy studies. The first repor t of this group describes a spectrum of relevant late effects and prop oses investigations for their detection.