Implications of cancer for school attendance and behavior

✍ Scribed by Eiser, Christine ;Vance, Yvonne H.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1341

✦ Synopsis

School attendance has been described by several authors [4,6,10,11,15,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][27][28][29][30][31][32], and was found to be the biggest problem in the year following diagnosis; this difficulty decreases with time [23,31,32]. Children with cancer are absent more often than those with other chronic conditions [21,22]. Absence rates are higher for those undergoing bone marrow transplants [19], and those with CNS tumors [20]; also for children who relapse compared with those in remission [28].