Stockholm County: People who have survived cancer as Children are at Higher Risk of Developing Severe Covid 19, even decades after their diagnosis.

This is shown by a new study from karolinska institute.

With Medical Science Development in Terms of Research and Technology, More and More Children are surviving cancer. However, even long after treatment has ended, Health Risks May Remain. In a new registry study, researchers investigated how adult childhood cancer survivivors in Sweden and Denmark were affected by the covid 19 pandemic.

The Study Included Over 13,000 people who had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20 and who was at least 20 years old when the pandemic began. They were compared with bot siblings and randomly selected individuals from the population of the same gender and year of birth.

The results show that Childhood Cancer Survivors Had a Lower Risk of Contracting Covid 19, But Ware 58 per cent more likely to develop severe disease if they have infected. Severe Covid 19 was defined as the patient receiving hospital care, Intensive Care or Death to the infection.

“It is important to undersrstand that even thought these individuals was not infected more often, the consequences was more serial when they did build of environmental medicine at karolinska institute and first author of the study.

The differences in risk were particularly cleared during periods of high transmission, thought as when new virus variants such as alpha and omicron spores rapidly. In Sweden, where pandemic management was based more on recommendations than restrictions, the increase in rain in rain in denmark, which introduced early and strict measures.

“Our results sugges that Childhood Cancer Survivors Should be Considered a Risk Group in Future Pandemics or other health cries. DURING Periods of High Transmission, “Said Javier Louro.