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Health professionals have become increasingly aware of the psychological needs of children with cancer in the past few decades. Increased survival rates in pediatric oncology due to. new cancer therapies have led childhood cancer survivors to face new psychosocial challenges during and after treatment administration. In addition, cognitive theorists have described the development of childrens' concepts of illness and death, and their ability to comprehend their medical condition and the possibility of dying in cases of life-threatening illness. Bearison and Mulhern have captured the shift that pediatric psychooncology has taken from focusing on the dying child to emphasizing the emotional needs of children with cancer. Pediatric Psychooncology covers those areas identified by the editors as major topics of psychological research in pediatric cancer. It starts with a basic but comprehensive medical overview on childhood cancer. Prevalence, etiological factors, clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures and different treatment modalities for the most common cancers in childhood are described. This provides the reader with the medical context necessary to better understand psychol
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- Author
- Maria Die-Trill
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; FASEB (ISSN 1057-9249)
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)