Childhood Cancer and Functional Impacts Across the Care Continuum

by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

Since the late 1960s, the survival rate in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer has steadily improved, with a corresponding decline in the cancer-specific death rate. Although the improvements in survival are encouraging, they have come at the cost of acute, chronic, and late adverse effects precipitated by the toxicities associated with the individual or combined use of different types of treatment (e.g., surgery, radiation, chemotherapy)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309683491
• ISBN13: 9780309683494
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"