Cancer Risk Among Children, Young Adults With Congenital Heart Disease

Congenital heart disease was found to be directly associated with cancer among children and young adults, said new study.

National registry data in Sweden were used in this study that assessed the risk of developing cancer in children and young adults with congenital heart disease compared with healthy people in the general population from birth to age 41.

‘Children and young adults with congenital heart disease are at increased cancer risk.’

Zacharias Mandalenakis, M.D., Ph.D., F.E.S.C., of the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.6762)

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Source: Eurekalert