childhood

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that even those who survived the trauma of a cancer diagnosis in childhood had an elevated risk of complications later in life.

The study’s authors said that male subjects who were not obese by the age of 20 were likely to live eight years longer than those who were. This was the very first study to examine data over such a long period of time, providing rare insight into the health effects of the condition.