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Surviving Childhood Cancer: The Psychosocial Impact On Parents
Childhood cancer is no longer viewed as inevitably fatal but rather as a chronic life-threatening illness. Child cancer patients and their families are now faced with longer phases of treatment and an inability to predict the future. Beyond a general recognition of the potential hardships they must …
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Reconstructing experience of childhood cancer: a narrative inquiry
Many childhood cancer survivors experience long-term effects from their illness long after their treatments are over. In order to more fully understand the impact these effects have on a young person’s life, there is a need for more patient illness narratives. Using Connelly and Clandinin’s …
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The Non-Medical Expenses Associated with Childhood Cancer
… by North Central families of children with cancer, and 2) determine the amount of money families spend for these expenses.<br> A descriptive-correlation design was used in a survey of twenty-five families (n=25) obtained from a North Central Pediatric Oncology clinic and affiliated hospital. …
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Employment quality in adult survivors of childhood cancer
Background: Adult survivors of childhood cancer can have lower employment participation outcomes including employment quality. This study is aimed to identify factors that predict employment quality in this growing population. Methods: Retrospective cohort study of 296 currently employed adult …
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Risk and Risk Factors For Colorectal Subsequent Malignancies In Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
<p>Survivors of childhood cancer are at risk for colorectal subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMNs); notably, these cancers are amenable to screening. To identify at-risk survivors that may benefit from early screening, descriptive and risk factor analyses were performed to ascertain risk factors for …
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Infertility and infertility treatment: childhood cancer and epigenetic risks.
Although childhood cancer is rare, it can have a devastating impact on the children who develop it and their families. Just as in adults, cancer in children is comprised of many disease types. Since the window for exposure is quite limited in childhood cancer, exposures encountered in utero are …
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LIVING WITH CHILDHOOD CANCER - Family Members’ Experiences and Needs
… lived experiences and needs during a child’s cancer trajectory and to describe how the illness and its treatment influence both individuals within the family and the family as a whole. Seventeen families with a child under the age of 13 and newly diagnosed with cancer were followed during the …
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Parent-child differences in psychological distress following childhood cancer treatment
<p>While the prognosis for pediatric cancer is improving, survivorship is accompanied by a number of potential long-term consequences. While not all childhood cancer survivors (CCS) and their parents experience psychological distress during survivorship, research does indicate that at least some do …
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Resilience and Quality of Life in Taiwanese Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Survivors of childhood cancer are at risk to develop physiologic-psychosocial complications that affect their quality of life. This study explored how the independent variables of illness-related risk (ILLRK), individual risks (IRK), protective factors (PF) and resilience (RS) affected the …
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Family Communication between Parents and AYAs in the Childhood Cancer Context
… Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are a population with unique age-specific characteristics and often neglected therapeutic needs. Specifically, Korean AYAs with cancer reported greater level of stress that comes from unique cultural and societal characteristics, but there is …
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QUALITY OF LIFE IN SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
… was to understand the processes survivors of childhood cancer go through with regard to their quality of life (QOL), how they define QOL, and what factors facilitate and hinder good QOL. Eight survivors participated in semi-structured interviews. Strauss and Corbin's (1990) grounded theory …
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Survivor guilt and posttraumatic stress among young adult survivors of childhood cancer
<p>Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for a variety of adverse physical and mental health outcomes. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in a small, but notable, minority of childhood cancer survivors. Little is known about modifiable factors that may increase the risk of developing PTSD …
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Overcoming the Cancer Experience: Narrative Identity in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Although young adult survivors of childhood cancer (YAs) face a series of significant physical and psychosocial challenges, only a portion of these survivors will actually develop mental health difficulties. Research on narrative identity and posttraumatic growth suggests that developing a coherent …
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Building a robust clinical diagnosis support system for childhood cancer using data mining methods
… in understanding core pathways and processes of cancer requires thorough analysis of many coding and noncoding regions of the genome. Data mining and knowledge discovery have been applied to datasets across many industries, including bioinformatics. However, data mining faces a major challenge in …
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Incidence and Clinical Relevance of Abnormal Complete Blood Counts in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
… blood counts (CBCs) obtained during follow-up of childhood cancer survivors. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 193 survivors, diagnosed between 1970-1986, who have been followed in our center's After Cancer Experience Program and are participants in the Childhood Cancer …
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Infrastructure Development For Personalized Risk Prediction to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease In Childhood Cancer Survivors
<p>Although childhood cancer survivors have lengthy life expectancies, they run the risk of experiencing long-term health issues as a result of their treatment. The most frequent non-cancerous cause of morbidity and mortality for these survivors is cardiac disease. Radiation therapy (RT) has been …
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The psychosocial impact of surviving childhood cancer and reassimilating back into society in young adults
Approximately 82% of children with childhood cancer survive at least 5 years after their diagnosis. Survivors are faced with a new reality and are faced with having to navigate that reality based on their own perspectives. While many facets encompassing survivorship have been explored in the …
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Feasibility and Acceptability of an Exercise Intervention for Childhood Cancer Patients within a Clinical Setting
… participation is greatly encouraged. However, childhood cancer patients display significantly reduced levels of PA, both during treatment and into adulthood. As survival rates of childhood cancer are improving, it is of increased importance to reduce negative effects of treatment and late …
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Effect of repurposed drugs on the cellular properties of childhood cancer: in vitro & in silico studies
Rhabdoid tumours (RT) are a rare form of childhood cancer which is known to affect infants under the age of 1 year. Survival rate is a major problem with only 31% of those who are diagnosed living to 1 years old. In this research extracranial RT from the A204 cell line was investigated for its …
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