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Increasing numbers of children are surviving childhood cancer. The optimism of survival comes with the reality of long-term complications from treatment. Among the complications survivors may experience are a number of neurodevelopmental disabilities resulting from the underlying disease or the therapies needed to achieve a cure. These disabilities may put some survivors at risk for sleep disturbances, and conversely, some disabilities may be negatively influenced by coexisting sleep disturbances. In this chapter we review the most common neurodevelopmental complications seen in this population, describe their potential etiologies, and explore their associations with sleep.

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Ruble, K.J. (2019). Cancer Survivors. In: Accardo, J. (eds) Sleep in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98414-8_25

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