Cancer and the adolescent

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Eden, T. O. B.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 2nd ed. /
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 294 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

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.].