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A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
260 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am11.02.2019Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
This book discusses the most important practical aspects involved in providing multidisciplinary Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) services for cancer patients. It draws on international experience in several continents of establishing and running such services and provides a contemporary, practical approach to AYA care based on accumulated experience. It is of interest to those establishing or seeking to improve AYA services as well as those already caring for AYA cance patients.Among topics discussed are incidence trends and treatment pathways, access to clinical trials for adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult services, psychological support and social care as well as survivorship and fertility.This book is of value of those establishing new services, those developing an existing service and those whose work includes the care of AYA patients. It is an important companion for pediatricians, oncologists as well as other medical, nursing and allied health professionals caring for Adolescents and Yound Adults with cancer.mehr
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KlappentextThis book discusses the most important practical aspects involved in providing multidisciplinary Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) services for cancer patients. It draws on international experience in several continents of establishing and running such services and provides a contemporary, practical approach to AYA care based on accumulated experience. It is of interest to those establishing or seeking to improve AYA services as well as those already caring for AYA cance patients.Among topics discussed are incidence trends and treatment pathways, access to clinical trials for adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult services, psychological support and social care as well as survivorship and fertility.This book is of value of those establishing new services, those developing an existing service and those whose work includes the care of AYA patients. It is an important companion for pediatricians, oncologists as well as other medical, nursing and allied health professionals caring for Adolescents and Yound Adults with cancer.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-09762-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum11.02.2019
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Seiten260 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht460 g
IllustrationenVII, 260 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.46151051
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GenreMedizin

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Overview of TYA cancer.- 2. Cancer research and AYA.- 3. Models of delivery of care for AYA.- 4. Transition- from pediatric to adult health services.- 5. Psychological support and social care.- 7. Fertility.- 8. Survivorship.- 9. Palliative care for AYA.- 9. Healthcare behaviours.- 10. Caring for the carers.- 11. What AYA want health professionals to know.mehr

Autor

Dr Julia Chisholm Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Children and Young People`s Unit, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Down`s Road, Sutton, SM2 5PT

Rachael Hough is a Consultant Haematologist and Transplant Physician at University College London Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked exclusively with TYA patients with haematological malignancies since her consultant appointment in 2005. She has specialist expertise in the management of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in this age group and the use of umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of haemopoietic stem cells. She established a national BSBMT affiliated UK Cord Blood Working Group and has worked closely with the Department of Health, Stem Cell Strategic Forum and All Party Parliamentary Group of stem cells to promote the use of cord blood and to expand the national cord blood repository. She was also the chief investigator of 2 NCRI adopted clinical trials of umbilical cord blood transplantation in children, adolescents and adults and a co-coordinator of the TYA aspects of the national ALL protocols, UKALL2003 and UKALL2011. TYA-specific leadership roles have included Lead Clinician of the UCLH Children and Young People's Cancer Service 2008-2017, Chair of the North Thames TYA Cancer Network since 2012, Chair of the NHS England Teenage and Young Adult Clinical Reference Group 2012-2016 and Chair of NHS England's Children and Young People's Clinical Reference Group since 2016.
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