Follow-up Care in Childhood Cancer Survivors: Improving Services in Switzerland

The survival rate of children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer has markedly improved in the last decades and now exceeds 85% in Switzerland [1]. This results in about 5700 childhood cancer survivors living in Switzerland, who have been diagnosed before age 14 years [2]. Most childhood cancer patients are cured from cancer and have decades of life ahead of them. Therefore, effective strategies to promote long-term health and quality of life are important. In this paper, we will briefly present major late effects experienced by childhood cancer survivors, and describe ongoing initiatives in the field of childhood cancer survivorship and long-term follow-up care (LTFU) in Switzerland.