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Complications
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Recurrent retinoblastoma
Children treated for retinoblastoma have a risk of cancer returning in and around the treated eye. For this reason, your child's doctor will schedule follow-up exams to check for recurrent retinoblastoma. The doctor may design a personalized follow-up exam schedule for your child. In most cases, this will likely involve eye exams every few months for the first few years after retinoblastoma treatment ends.
Additionally, children with the inherited form of retinoblastoma have an increased risk of developing other types of cancers in any part of the body in the years after treatment. For this reason, children with inherited retinoblastoma require long-term follow-up with a cancer doctor (oncologist).
- Retinoblastoma treatment (PDQ). National Cancer Institute. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/retinoblastoma/patient/allpages. Accessed July 26, 2010.
- Augsburger JJ, et al. Retinoblastoma. In: Yanoff M, et al. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Mosby; 2008. http://www.mdconsult.com/das/book/body/199400089-5/0/1869/0.html. Accessed July 26, 2010.
- Surgical procedures. American Society of Ocularists. http://www.ocularist.org/resources_surgical_procedures.asp. Accessed July 26, 2010.
- Family handbook for children with cancer. Children's Oncology Group. http://www.curesearch.org/pdf/Family_Handbook_for_Curesearch.pdf. Accessed July 26, 2010.
- Genetic counseling and testing. American Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/Retinoblastoma/DetailedGuide/retinoblastoma-after-genetic-counseling. Accessed July 26, 2010.
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