Educational attainment in long-term survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

Authors

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Lisa Bashore

Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX

Lisa Bashore , Zahra Merchant , Philip Lupo , Allison A. King , Tyler Hamby , Deokumar Srivastava , Rebecca M. Howell , Todd M. Gibson , Kevin C. Oeffinger , Gregory T. Armstrong , W. Paul Bowman , Kevin R. Krull

Organizations

Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, Cook Childrens Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Duke University, Durham, NC, Univ of North Texas Health Sci Ctr, Fort Worth, TX

Research Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health

Background: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer place survivors at risk for lower educational attainment, the increased burden of chronic conditions on attainment has not been examined. Methods: Participants included 16724 survivors (48% female; mean diagnosis age 9.1 years, current age 36.2 years, time since diagnosis 26.6 years) and 4098 siblings (mean current age 39.3 years) Educational attainment was categorized as college graduation (yes/no) among survivors ≥ age 25 years. Chronic conditions occurring before age 25 years of age were graded using Common Terminology for Adverse Events 4.3. Modified Poisson regression models estimated relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of treatment exposures and chronic conditions on education attainment, adjusting for age at diagnosis and sex. Results: College graduation was reported by 8391 (51%) survivors and 2410 (59%) siblings. Survivors of all diagnoses were more likely to not graduate compared to siblings (all p’s < 0.05), with survivors of CNS tumor (RR1.36, CI 1.25-1.49), leukemia (RR 1.17, CI 1.07-1.28), and Hodgkin lymphoma (RR 1.17, CI 1.07-1.29) being at higher risk than survivors of neuroblastoma. Compared to survivors with no history of cranial radiation therapy (CRT), higher risk of not graduating college was seen in those who received 20-30Gy (RR 1.16, CI 1.09-1.25), 30-50Gy (RR 1.37, CI 1.26-1.49) and ≥50Gy (RR 1.35, CI 1.28-1.42). Among survivors not exposed to CRT, dexamethasone had a protective effect on college education (RR 0.88, CI 0.80-0.97) compared to no corticosteroid exposure. Male sex and older age (≥ 5 years) at diagnosis were associated with being more likely to not graduate college. survivors reporting any serious/life threatening chronic condition prior to age 25 years (grades 3-4) were more likely to not graduate college (RR 1.14, 95% CI 1.10-1.18) compared to no or mild/moderate conditions (grades < 3). Conclusions: Survivors reporting chronic conditions are less likely to complete a college education by age 25 years and may need additional early educational or vocational resources.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Survivorship

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 10063)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.10063

Abstract #

10063

Poster Bd #

445

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