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Tumours in Children by Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward M.D., F.R.C.P., D.C.H. (auth.), Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward M.D., F.R.C.P., D.C.H. (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tumours in Children about?

Cancer in childhood is a rare disease, but for many reasons attracts interest out of proportion to its frequency. There is, of course, the parental anguish associated with a catastrophic illness in a son or daughter - anguish shared in large measure by the physician. This aspect no doubt has spurred on clinicians and investigators in their race to develop more effective means of treatment. The rewards are great. Not only is there the human element, but there is also the fact that survival of the successfully treated child is measured in scores of years rather than the ordinary five to ten year survival rates cited for the adult. Associated with this aspect of paediatric oncology is the responsibility to make those many years as trouble-free as possible. The challenge to the team organizing the care of children with cancer is clear. Cure is to be obtained, but not at the cost of progressively more severe somatic or psychic lesions as the child develops through adolescence to maturity. The cured child of today must not become the chronically ill adult of tomorrow. The spectrum of malignant diseases in childhood is not so varied as that of older patients. The kinds of tumour seen in c

Who reads Tumours in Children?

Author

Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward M.D., F.R.C.P., D.C.H. (auth.), Henry Basil Marsden, James Kenrick Steward M.D., F.R.C.P., D.C.H. (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642810220

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine