Quality of life in long-term childhood cancer survivors and the relation of late effects and subjective well-being.

Goals: The purpose of the present study was the assessment of health-related quality of life in adult long-term survivors of childhood cancer and the detection of possible treatment- and cancer-related late effects. The relation of objective medical data and subjective appraisal was also examined by combining the doctor's and the patient's views of the perceived health status.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-eight young adults at the age of at least 18 years who had been diagnosed with cancer in the years 1975-1995 and were off therapy at least 5 years with no evidence of disease participated.