Childhood cancer survivors at higher risk of heart attack, stroke or another cancer decades later due to the original treatment - Reuters (article link)

- premature deaths among survivors was 11 times the number expected in the general population.
- largely due to exposure to radiation during treatment and to the more toxic cancer drugs.
- 7 percent due to a recurrence of their original disease, 77 percent due to new cancers, heart disease, and so-called cerebrovascular disease, which causes high blood pressure and strokes.