Children who have received radiation to treat brain cancer get lower grades than children whose brains have not been exposed to radiation, according to a Finnish study published in the journal Neurology.
Researchers used data from national registries to compare 300 juvenile brain cancer patients with 1,473 healthy children of equivalent age and sex and living in approximately the same area. All cancer patients had been diagnosed before the age of 16, were still alive on their 16th birthdays and had been born between 1974 and 1986.
The researchers found that overall grade point averages were lower in cancer patients. The greatest difference came in studies of foreign languages, followed by a moderate impact on math and physical education grades, and only a minor impact on other subjects taught in a child's native language.
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