Childhood Cancer Survivors with Chronic Diseases
Autoren Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 aug 2023
This book is a unique documentation about the whole range of childhood cancer late effects and discusses their different ways of global influences. The number of childhood cancer survivors is increasing continuously. Thus the topic is also getting more important and well informed caregivers are needed in their institutions. Survivorship after childhood cancer is not the same as survivorship after cancer in adults’ age.
All currently known late effects for former childhood cancer patients are explored in detail: not only organ-related but also psychosocial related long-term sequelae. It closes the gap of missing detailed information and their consequences for individuals and society. Past, presence, and future of childhood cancer late effects is presented as well as models of care for childhood cancer survivors.
This book is essential for all professionals who work with childhood cancer survivors, no matter if oncologists, psychologists, social workers, or patient advocates. It is also a helpful textbook for university classrooms and seminars as well as for pediatric oncology fellowship programs.
This book is essential for all professionals who work with childhood cancer survivors, no matter if oncologists, psychologists, social workers, or patient advocates. It is also a helpful textbook for university classrooms and seminars as well as for pediatric oncology fellowship programs.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031317965
ISBN-10: 3031317963
Pagini: 125
Ilustrații: XV, 125 p. 10 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031317963
Pagini: 125
Ilustrații: XV, 125 p. 10 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Part I: Beginnings and Basics.- 1 Past of Childhood Cancer.- 2 Incidence of Global Childhood Cancer.- 3 History of Childhood Cancer Late Effects.- Part II: Present of Childhood Cancer Late Effects.- 4 Organ-related Long-Term Consequences.- 5 Social and Psychosocial Late Effects.- 6 Economic and Other Fields of Late Effects.- Part III: Future of Childhood Cancer Late Effects.- 7 Global Childhood Cancer Survival.- 8 Surveillance for Late Effects.- 9 Reducing Methotrexate Induced Toxicity.- 10 Cognitive Recovery in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors using Metformin.- 11 Treating Cancer Therapy-Related Cognitive Impairment.- 12 Contacting Former Patients.- 13 New Agents in Treatment.- 14 Cost-Effectiveness of Screenings for Survivors of Childhood Cancer.- 15 Models of Care for Long-term Survivors.
Notă biografică
Christian Müller is responsible for communication and cancer patient advocate for an individual grant program at the Gert and Susanna Mayer Foundation (Germany). He is himself a childhood cancer survivor since he was diagnosed with B-cell non Hodgkin lymphoma in 1989. He completed a full medical studies curriculum as a guest auditor as well as Journalism studies. He worked at the German childhood cancer late effects study group (LESS) at the University Hospital of Lübeck (from 2014 to 2017; consultant since 2018.) Besides, he is member of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP), the Australian & New Zealand Childrens Haematology and Oncology Group (ANZCHOG), the German Society of Pediatric Oncology & Haematology (GPOH), the German Society for Haematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO), and the German Cancer Society (DKG).He authored several books on the topic of cancer in childhood.
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This book is a unique documentation about the whole range of childhood cancer late effects and discusses their different ways of global influences. The number of childhood cancer survivors is increasing continuously. Thus the topic is also getting more important and well informed caregivers are needed in their institutions. Survivorship after childhood cancer is not the same as survivorship after cancer in adults’ age.
All currently known late effects for former childhood cancer patients are explored in detail: not only organ-related but also psychosocial related long-term sequelae. It closes the gap of missing detailed information and their consequences for individuals and society. Past, presence, and future of childhood cancer late effects is presented as well as models of care for childhood cancer survivors.
This book is essential for all professionals who work with childhood cancer survivors, no matter if oncologists, psychologists, social workers, or patient advocates. It is also a helpful textbook for university classrooms and seminars as well as for pediatric oncology fellowship programs.
This book is essential for all professionals who work with childhood cancer survivors, no matter if oncologists, psychologists, social workers, or patient advocates. It is also a helpful textbook for university classrooms and seminars as well as for pediatric oncology fellowship programs.
Caracteristici
Explores the whole range of childhood cancer long-term consequences Describes economic and social consequences of childhood cancer late effects Presents models of care for childhood cancer survivors in high and low/middle income countries