Main description:

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both established models of care and targeted models of lifelong surveillance of late effects by bodily systems and neurological outcomes. Sections devoted to quality of life and re-entry after treatment focus on key concerns such as health risk behaviors, school and career issues, psychological challenges, and care disparities. And a robust resources section adds extra usefulness to the expert coverage.

Among the Handbook's topics:

• Developmental considerations in the transition from child and adolescent to adult survivorship.
• Long-term follow-up roadmaps by disease and treatment.   
• Neuropsychological effects of pediatric brain tumors and associated treatment.
• Building resiliency in childhood cancer survivors: a clinician’s perspective.   
• School issues and educational strategies for survivors of childhood cancer. 
• Educating and preparing the childhood cancer survivor for long-term care: a curriculum model for cancer centers.

A work of rare scope, scholarship, and clinical acumen, the Handbook of Long-Term Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor is a rewarding, practice-building resource essential to a wide range of healing professionals, including primary care physicians, pediatricians, oncologists, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, child psychologists, and licensed therapists.

Feature:

Comprehensive: medical, psychosocial and neurocognitive aspects in one handbook

Provides current evidence-based treatments

Co-edited by a physician and a neuropsychologist to provide integrative, holistic treatment perspective

Back cover:

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both established models of care and targeted models of lifelong surveillance of late effects by bodily systems and neurological outcomes. Sections devoted to quality of life and re-entry after treatment focus on key concerns such as health risk behaviors, school and career issues, psychological challenges, and care disparities. And a robust resources section adds extra usefulness to the expert coverage.

Among the Handbook's topics: 

• Developmental considerations in the transition from child and adolescent to adult survivorship.
• Long-term follow-up roadmaps by disease and treatment.   
• Neuropsychological effects of pediatric brain tumors and associated treatment.
• Building resiliency in childhood cancer survivors: a clinician’s perspective.   
• School issues and educational strategies for survivors of childhood cancer. 
• Educating and preparing the childhood cancer survivor for long-term care: a curriculum model for cancer centers.

 A work of rare scope, scholarship, and clinical acumen, the Handbook of Long-Term Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor is a rewarding, practice-building resource essential to a wide range of healing professionals, including prima

Contents:

SECTION I:  SURVEILLANCE OF THE SURVIVOR .- The long and winding road: Transitions in care for the childhood cancer survivor.- Developmental Considerations in the Transition from Child and Adolescent to Adult Survivorship.- The European Experience of Establishing Guidelines for Surveillance of the Childhood Cancer Survivor  SECTION II:  SURVEILLANCE OF MEDICAL LATE EFFECTS.- Long Term Follow Up Roadmaps by Disease and Treatment.- Central Nervous System.- Endocrine System.- Cardiovascular System.-Pulmonary System.- Renal, Genitourinary and Reproductive System.- Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Systems.- Musculoskeletal System.- Eye, Ear and Oral Health.- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.- Second Malignant Neoplasms.- SECTION III:  NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL LATE EFFECTS.- Neuropsychological Outcomes of Childhood Leukemia Survivors.- Neuropsychological Effects of Pediatric Brain Tumors and Associated Treatment.- SECTION IV:  PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND QUALITY OF LIFE.- Psychological Challenges and Adaptation in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer.- Building Resiliency in Childhood Cancer Survivors:  A Clinician’s Perspective.- Cultural and Linguistic issues in the Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Cancer Survivors.- Quality of Life During Palliative Care.- SECTION V:  RE-ENTRY AFTER TREATMENT.- Lifestyle Factors and Health Risk Behaviors.- School Issues and Educational Strategies for Survivors of Childhood Cancer.-  Special Education Laws.- Career and Vocational Outlook.- Rehabilitation Considerations in Pediatric Cancer Survivors.-   Neurocognitive Late Effects in Children Treated for Cancer:  Psychological Impact, Identification, and Prevention and Remediation.- Psychopharmacological Interventions in Childhood Cancer Survivors.-  The Cancer Survivor and Complementary Health Approaches.-  Barriers and Disparities in Accessing Quality Care Amongst Childhood Cancer Survivors.- Educating and Preparing the Childhood Cancer Survivor for Long-Term Care:  A Curriculum Model for Cancer Centers.- SECTION VI: RESOURCES.