Cancer and the adolescent [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145423103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, Mass., : Blackwell, c2005
• ISBN: 1-281-32038-2; 9786611320386; 0-470-79107-1; 0-470-99473-8; 0-470-99472-X
• Edizione: [2nd ed. /]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EdenT. O. B
• Disciplina: 616.99/4/00835
• Soggetti: Cancer in adolescence; Tumors in adolescence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A right not a privilege! / M. Whiteson -- Patterns of incidence of cancer in teenagers and young adults / J.M. Birch -- Lack of participation of older adolescents and young adults with cancer in clinical trials / A. Bleyer, T. Budd, and M. Montello -- Adolescent cancer perspectives from France / L. Brugieres -- Care of teenagers with cancer / R.D. Barr -- Leukaemia / J. Nachman -- Advances in treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma / M.P. Gerrard -- Hodgkin's disease and adolescents / K.P. Windebank -- Adolescent CNS tumours / D.A. Walker -- Ewing's sarcoma / A. Craft -- Advances in osteosarcoma / J. Whelan -- Osteosarcoma and surgery / R.J. Grimer -- Subfertility in adolescents with cancer / W.H.B. Wallace and M.F.H. Brougham -- Body image / M. Woods and L. Shearer -- The impact of cancer on adolescents and their families / K.L. Neville -- Survivors of teenage cancer / J.J. Spinetta -- Surviving with scars / M.C. Self -- Whose dying is it anyway? / R. Hain -- The parent's perspective of teenage cancer / R. Kanerak and V. Riley -- Who should care for young people with cancer? / J. Arbuckle ... [et al.] -- Patterns of care for teenagers and young adults with cancer / I. Lewis -- Managing professional relationships across the services / S. Morgan -- The next 10 years in ; biomedical science and care for teenagers and young adults with cancer / P. Selby ... [et al.].
• Sommario/riassunto: Young people with cancer have suffered from not being recognized as either children or adult patients. The lack of an adequate number of centres, properly equipped for teenage cancer care, is acknowledged worldwide. Yet their needs, both physically and psychologically, are perhaps the most acute of all. Now, this book, based on an international conference hosted by the Teenage Cancer Trust, addresses the issues surrounding care of the adolescent with cancer more completely than ever before. Some chapters provide practical information from leading specialists on managing and treating the sp