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High non-compliance with cancer therapy in teens
Updated Thu. Mar. 30 2006 3:34 PM ET Canadian Press TORONTO Parents and doctors must keep a close eye on adolescents with cancer, who may not keep up with pills and other chemotherapy regimens because they're more concerned with surviving the debilitating treatment than beating the disease itself, researchers say. A study conducted in part by researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children suggests compliance in adhering to chemotherapy among teens may not be as high as expected - and that could put young people's lives at risk, says co-author Dr. Gideon Koren. "The success of cancer therapy is closely dependent on you taking your medications in a very religious manner," said Koren, a Sick Kids pediatrician and pharmacologist who supervised the study. "There's no question that drug therapy changes the prognosis, ... 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | All news |