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Measuring The Burden Of Childhood Cancer Treatment: Decrements In Bone Health And Financial Toxicity, Hadley Bloomhardt

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

With research and clinical advances over the past several decades, survival rates for childhood cancer have improved to greater than 80%. However, the path to survivorship poses a substantial burden to patients and families, with lengthy treatment courses requiring frequent hospital visits, and with late complications of treatment that can present years after therapy ends. This thesis explores each of these areas: one study investigating bone health and morbidity in leukemia and lymphoma survivors, and another study examining the cost burden to families of children during treatment for average-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We aimed to determine the utility of …