![]() Objectives: The SCCSS investigates long-term outcomes of survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer, and the incidence and spectrum of various somatic and psychosocial outcomes including late mortality, second primary malignancies, somatic health and medication, mental health, educational achievements, health-related quality of life, and the association of these outcomes with risk factors like tumor, treatment modalities, and demographic characteristics. Comprehensive data on the burden of late effects of childhood cancer or risk factors for late effects was not available, and so Switzerland set up the SCCSS to increase knowledge and improve the quality of care and follow-up. ![]() Since cancer and its treatments may later have adverse effects, it is important to track and improve survivor health and quality of life. This means that the population of long-term childhood cancer survivors is growing. ![]() Why Should I Register and Submit Results?īackground: Therapies have improved so much in the past decades that more than 80% of children and adolescents now survive cancer. ![]()
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