Title |
Educational attainment among long-term survivors of cancer in childhood and adolescence: a Norwegian population-based cohort study
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Published in |
Journal of Cancer Survivorship, May 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s11764-015-0453-z |
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Authors |
Sara Ghaderi, Anders Engeland, Maria Winther Gunnes, Dag Moster, Ellen Ruud, Astri Syse, Finn Wesenberg, Tone Bjørge |
Abstract |
The number of young cancer survivors has increased over the past few decades due to improvement in treatment regimens, and understanding of long-term effects among the survivors has become even more important. Educational achievements and choice of educational fields were explored here. Five-year cancer survivors born in Norway during 1965-1985 (diagnosed <19 years) were included in our analysis by linking Norwegian population-based registries. Cox regression was applied to study the educational attainment among survivors of central nervous system (CNS) tumours, those assumed to have received CNS-directed therapy, and other cancer survivors relative to the cancer-free population. Logistic regression was used to compare the choice of educational fields between the cancer survivors at undergraduate and graduate level and the cancer-free population. Overall, a lower proportion of the cancer survivors completed intermediate (67 vs. 70 %), undergraduate (31 vs. 35 %) and graduate education (7 vs. 9 %) compared with the cancer-free population. Deficits in completion of an educational level were mainly observed among survivors of CNS-tumours and those assumed to have received CNS-directed therapy. Choices of educational fields among cancer survivors were in general similar with the cancer-free population at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Survivors of CNS-tumours and those assumed to have received CNS-directed therapy were at increased risk for educational impairments compared with the cancer-free population. Choices of educational fields were in general similar. Careful follow-up of the survivors of CNS-tumours and those assumed to have received CNS-directed therapy is important at each level of education. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Unknown | 47 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 19% |
Student > Master | 7 | 15% |
Researcher | 5 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 6% |
Other | 10 | 21% |
Unknown | 10 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 23% |
Psychology | 10 | 21% |
Social Sciences | 5 | 11% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 6% |
Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
Other | 5 | 11% |
Unknown | 11 | 23% |