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Location: Pyrmont, Sydney: Channel 10
Program: TEN News Producer:
Aired On: 6/09/2010 9:38:00 AM Compere: Newsreader
More than 600 Australian children will be diagnosed with cancer this year and three die of the disease every week. A new study by the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia in collaboration with the Sydney Children's Hospital have looked into the long-term health of survivors. Interview with Dr Lesley Ashton, Children's Cancer Institute of Australia. Ashton says they looked at 900 survivors treated at Sydney Children's Hospital over three decades and found they were seven and a half times more likely to die. Ashton reveals that they were five times more at risk of developing a second cancer. Ashton says genetic and lifestyle factors can increase the risk of late effects from cancer therapy received during childhood.
Duration: 3 mins 41 secs
Interviewee: Dr Lesley Ashton, Children's Cancer Institute of Australia