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SUBMITTER: Stuber ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3098501 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stuber Margaret L ML Meeske Kathleen A KA Krull Kevin R KR Leisenring Wendy W Stratton Kayla K Kazak Anne E AE Huber Marc M Zebrack Bradley B Uijtdehaage Sebastian H SH Mertens Ann C AC Robison Leslie L LL Zeltzer Lonnie K LK
Pediatrics 20100501 5
<h4>Objective</h4>This study compared the prevalence of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with functional impairment and/or clinical distress, among very long-term survivors of childhood cancer and a group of healthy siblings.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 6542 childhood cancer survivors >18 years of age who received diagnoses between 1970 and 1986 and 368 siblings of cancer survivors completed a comprehensive demographic and health survey.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 589 survivors (9% ...[more]