Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future [Paperback]

Wendy Hobbie (Author), Nancy Keene (Author), Kathy Ruccione (Author)

Book Description

Series: Patient Centered Guides | Publication Date: April 15, 2000

More than 250,000 children, teens, and adults are survivors of childhood cancer. The present high rate of cure for childhood cancer is a cause for celebration--children and their families faced adversity and triumphed. The surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy used to cure children can affect growing bodies and developing minds. If young people know of these potential problems, they can take steps to identify, cope with, or treat them early if they do develop.

Childhood Cancer Survivors charts the territory of long-term survivorship:

• Emotional aspects of surviving cancer
• Challenges for relationships; fertility concerns
• Follow-up schedules for health monitoring
• Self-care and lifestyle issues
• Transition from pediatric to adult care
• Overcoming discrimination in employment or insurance

Authors Keene, Hobbie, and Ruccione are experts in the field of childhood cancer. They have written, spoken, and advocated about all aspects of survivorship. Importantly, they have also talked to hundreds of survivors, with a wide range of issues and triumphs, and have included many of their stories.

Includes medical history record-keeper.

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About the Author

Wendy Hobbie is one the editors and chapter authors of Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Assessment and Management. She has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals on topics such as the late effects of treatment of childhood cancer, the role of the nurse practitioner in follow-up care, and risk taking and decision making of survivors of childhood cancer. She is frequently invited to lecture health care professionals, cancer survivors and their families on a variety of cancer survivorship issues. Wendy Hobbie is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Oncology Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the Coordinator of the Follow-Up Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During the past 15 years, Wendy has devoted her professional life to the follow-up and treatment of survivors of childhood cancer and their families. Through education, Wendy has empowered survivors with the knowledge to advocate for themselves in the health care system and society. Wendy lives with her husband and two children, Jonathan and Sarah, in Philadelphia.

Nancy Keene has written or co-authored five health books for families. She is co-creator of the Patient-Centered Guides series and Editor of pediatric titles. Nancy is a tireless advocate for childrens health issues, including pediatric clinical trials, childhood cancer, late effects of childhood cancer treatments, pediatric pain relief, and emotional support for families. She frequently speaks for professional and parent groups and works on/with national pediatric advocacy organizations and committees.

Kathy Ruccione is the Nursing Administrator in the Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Her particular interests are in three areas: preparing patients and families to be informed participants in their care; the long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors; and the epidemiology and genetics of childhood cancer. She has published extensively and is frequently invited to speak on these topics. Kathy has lived in Southern California most of her life. She is the mother of one child, Daniel, who is now 12 years old. Living with Daniel, who is profoundly deaf, has brought many new challenges and opened new worlds. Her personal experience as a mother of a child with a disability has enriched her perspective and deepened her commitment to finding ways to help children and their families survive and transcend the experience with cancer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 482 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565924606
• ISBN-13: 978-1565924604
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,384,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Survivor's Dream, April 27, 2000

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Cathy Shilling (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future (Paperback)

This book is a wonderful resource for survivors of all types of cancer, their families and friends. My son was so young when first diagnosed, but the effects of his treatment for leukaemia and a Bone Marrow Transplant will be far reaching, and this book will help him enormously to understand what he has been through, and what long-term medical follow-up he will need. The book manages to address all the issues, but at the same time there is so much that is positive in it too, with lots of quotes from survivors making it personal and full of heart. A book like this usually only exists in your dreams, I was delighted to find that the authors had actually turned it into a reality.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood Cancer Survivors, April 17, 2000

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Linda Goettina (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future (Paperback)

As a survivor of an adolescent cancer, this is the book I have been waiting for over the last thirty years. The information here is concise, well organized, readable and well presented. The authors do a great job of pulling together diverse and disparate medical research and setting it out for the lay reader. The book is compassionately tied together by the many stories of survivors who lend their voices and experiences to what might otherwise be overwhelming medical information. This is a book that every survivor of childhood/adolescent cancer should have.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! Just what I was looking for, August 13, 2000

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Emily (Kalamazoo, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future (Paperback)

I finished treatment for a chest wall Ewing's in 2000 and I have been looking for exactly what this book provides. It is simply fantastic. Being 21, I want and need to know about relationships, disclosure, fertility, post treatment side effects to watch for, employment issues, insurance issues, plus everything else in this book. It is the best $25 I have spent pertaining to survivorship of childhood cancer. I highly recommend this to be, at the very least, a starting point to knowing about your post-treatment needs and options.