Childhood Cancer Survivors A Practical Guide to Your Future

More than 270,000 children, teens, and adults in the Untied States are survivors of childhood cancer. The surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and stem cell transplants used to cure children can affect growing bodies and developing minds. If survivors know of these potential problems, they can take steps to identify, cope with, or treat them early if they do develop. The second edition of Childhood Cancer Survivors charts the territory for survivors by providing state-of-the-art information about medical late effects from treatment, emotional aspects of surviving cancer, schedules for follow-up care, challenges in the healthcare system, lifestyle choices to maximize health, and discrimination in employment of insurance.Keene, Nancy is the author of 'Childhood Cancer Survivors A Practical Guide to Your Future', published 2006 under ISBN 9780596528515 and ISBN 0596528515.