Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Just as important and perhaps even as nebulous are the expectancies of long-term pathological effects from current therapies. Green et al. note that: "Many patients who have been treated successfully for childhood cancer with regimens that contain one or more mutagenic chemotherapeutic agents are concerned that their own treatment during childhood or adolescence may adversely affect their children" (141). A number of studies have been carried out with a view to obtaining information about

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earning disabilities, difficulty in keeping up with school work and completing classroom assignments. Children with cancer appeared underactive, socially isolated, self-conscious, and less expressive of their emotions than the control children. These are, of course, ratings by teachers, i.e. subjective observations usually quantified by the academic grading system (p.89). Cognitive and Neurological Effects Perhaps the most common observation regarding the long-term effects of ALL treatment in children has been in the area of cognition. Treatment-related cognitive impairments have been reported for suvivors of childhood leukemia following central nervous system treatment. Significant declines have been found at the four to five year follow-up period on intelligence scores. Children less than seven years at diagnosis and treatment have exhibited greater declines on tasks measuring quantitative abilities than children older at diagnosis. Children with lower Verbal scores at diagnosis have exhibited greater declines on their Verbal scores at the follow-up period. Overall, declines observed after one year related to declines following the four to five year period. These observations suggest that survivors of childhood leukemi
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