The Damocles Syndrome: Psychosocial Consequences of Surviving Childhood Cancer |
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... prognosis for most childhood malignancies has changed dramatically over the last two decades . Childhood cancer ... prognosis have had on the approach of mental health profession- als and researchers working in pediatric oncology ...
... prognosis for most childhood malignancies has changed dramatically over the last two decades . Childhood cancer ... prognosis have had on the approach of mental health profession- als and researchers working in pediatric oncology ...
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... prognosis . This argument is based on three rationales ( Share , 1972 ) : first , the idea that children under age 10 are not capable of a real under- standing of death and do not experience anxiety about death . Those who take this ...
... prognosis . This argument is based on three rationales ( Share , 1972 ) : first , the idea that children under age 10 are not capable of a real under- standing of death and do not experience anxiety about death . Those who take this ...
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... prognosis was poor even when they had sur- vived up to seventeen years with no cancer - related health problems . In addition , most of the survivors and the families interviewed were unaware of their rights and of the remedies ...
... prognosis was poor even when they had sur- vived up to seventeen years with no cancer - related health problems . In addition , most of the survivors and the families interviewed were unaware of their rights and of the remedies ...
Contents
A Review | 1 |
Survival Rates and Risks | 31 |
Study Methods | 39 |
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adjustment problems adolescent adult age at diagnosis anger anticipatory grief asked behavior Binger cancer diagnosis cancer experience cancer history cancer patients cancer treatment Chapter chemotherapy child with cancer child's illness childhood cancer survivors children with cancer chlorambucil Chodoff Chronic illness clinical Combined Adjustment Rating concerns coping Cytoxan Death Anxiety denial diagnosis difficulties discussed disease effects fatally ill children fathers feelings former patients function Futterman and Hoffman Hodgkin's disease hospital interview issues Kagen-Goodheart Kaplan Koocher leukemia long-term survivors major marriage married ment Mental Status Examination methotrexate mothers neuroblastoma Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas normal Norman Jaffe parents reported participants Pediatrics percent person physician prognosis psychiatric psychological adjustment psychosocial radiation therapy recurrence relationships remember responses result risk sample scores siblings Sidney Farber significant social Spinetta spouses stress surgery survival survivor registry survivors of childhood symptoms Table told treated variables well-adjusted Wilms's tumor worry