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Cancer charities have called for better long term care for children who survive cancer.

A study has found that nearly half of doctors discharge their child patients as soon as treatment is finished while others ensure they are followed up for life.

Cancer Research UK and the UK Children’s Cancer Study Group are calling for updated guidelines on following up child cancer patients.

Study author Dr Aliki Taylor, a Cancer Research UK Training Fellow at the University of Birmingham, says: "The treatment for childhood cancer has been so successful that now more and more patients are surviving the disease. Long-term follow-up is essential as survivors can still experience health problems many years after treatment has finished."

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/news/pressreleases/childhoodcancersurvivors_09feb04