Social inequalities in the participation and activity of children and adolescents with leukemia, brain tumors, and sarcomas (SUPATEEN): a protocol for a multicenter longitudinal prospective observational study

• Main Authors: Julia Roick (Author), Reinhard Berner (Author), Toralf Bernig (Author), Bernhard Erdlenbruch (Author), Gabriele Escherich (Author), Jörg Faber (Author), Christoph Klein (Author), Konrad Bochennek (Author), Christian Kratz (Author), Joachim Kühr (Author), Alfred Längler (Author), Holger N. Lode (Author), Markus Metzler (Author), Hermann Müller (Author), Dirk Reinhardt (Author), Axel Sauerbrey (Author), Florian Schepper (Author), Wolfram Scheurlen (Author), Dominik Schneider (Author), Georg Christof Schwabe (Author), Matthias Richter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background About 2000 children and adolescents under the age of 18 are diagnosed with cancer each year in Germany. Because of current medical treatment methods, a high survival rate can be reached for many types of the disease. Nevertheless, patients face a number of long-term effects relat...