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Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future

Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future
By Nancy Keene, Kathy Ruccione, Wendy L Hobbie

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Survivors of childhood cancer have unique medical issues to follow throughout their lives and this book is an excellent guide.

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More than 250,000 children, teens, and adults are presently survivors of childhood cancer, which is cause for celebration. These long-term survivors of childhood cancer face a unique future. Some will encounter insurance and employment challenges, some will have emotional challenges, and some will have ongoing health problems related to treatment. Authors Keene, Hobbie, and Ruccione chart the territory of long-term survivorship:

    Emotions and relationships Transition from pediatric to adult careOvercoming discrimination in employment or insuranceLifestyle choices that maximize healthSchedules of follow-up care and possible medical late effects Record-keeper of medical history The stories of over one hundred survivors and parents--with a wide range of issues and triumphs--are included.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #494059 in Books
  • Published on: 2000-04-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 482 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Keene is an expert in the field of childhood cancer. She is one of the original developers of the Patient-Centered Guides series.


Ruccione is the Nursing Administrator in the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.


Hobbie is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Oncology Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the Coordinator of the Follow-up Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Customer Reviews

A Survivor's Dream5
This book is a wonderful resource for survivors of all types of cancer, their families and friends. My son was so young when first diagnosed, but the effects of his treatment for leukaemia and a Bone Marrow Transplant will be far reaching, and this book will help him enormously to understand what he has been through, and what long-term medical follow-up he will need. The book manages to address all the issues, but at the same time there is so much that is positive in it too, with lots of quotes from survivors making it personal and full of heart. A book like this usually only exists in your dreams, I was delighted to find that the authors had actually turned it into a reality.

Childhood Cancer Survivors5
As a survivor of an adolescent cancer, this is the book I have been waiting for over the last thirty years. The information here is concise, well organized, readable and well presented. The authors do a great job of pulling together diverse and disparate medical research and setting it out for the lay reader. The book is compassionately tied together by the many stories of survivors who lend their voices and experiences to what might otherwise be overwhelming medical information. This is a book that every survivor of childhood/adolescent cancer should have.

WOW! Just what I was looking for5
I finished treatment for a chest wall Ewing's in 2000 and I have been looking for exactly what this book provides. It is simply fantastic. Being 21, I want and need to know about relationships, disclosure, fertility, post treatment side effects to watch for, employment issues, insurance issues, plus everything else in this book. It is the best $25 I have spent pertaining to survivorship of childhood cancer. I highly recommend this to be, at the very least, a starting point to knowing about your post-treatment needs and options.