The majority of childhood cancer patients now can expect to survive into early adulthood, cured of their cancer. Current adult survivors are a diverse group in terms of diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and types of treatment. It is estimated that by 1990, 1 in every 1,000 twenty-year-olds will have had
Psychosocial functioning of young adolescent and adult survivors of childhood cancer
โ Scribed by Marina Servitzoglou; Danai Papadatou; Ioannis Tsiantis; Helen Vasilatou-Kosmidis
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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