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Many survivors of childhood cancer have heart desease

More then a quarter of the children that have recovered from cancer, as a young adult has a heart condition that can lead to heart failure.

That is the outcome of a study done by researches of the Emma Children's Hospital AMC in Amsterdam. The results have been published in Archives of Internal Medicine on July 26.

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By Arjen Brussaard

Recently the topsector plan Life Sciences & Health was published and presented to Minister Verhagen, of the so-called ELI Ministry. The document is an amazing compressed 60-pager, based on months of hard work by the group of experts chaired by Roel Fonville, and summarizes the conclusions after dozens of 1-to-1 meetings, five regional group sessions with dozens of opinion leaders and after having received over 170 (!) memo's, white papers and letters of intent.
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