Cancer and the Adolescent, 2nd Edition

Part 1 Patterns and perspectives.

2 Patterns of incidence of cancer in teenagers and young adults: implications for aetiology.

3 Lack of participation of older adolescents and young adults with cancer in clinical trials: impact in the USA.

4 Adolescents and cancer: perspectives from France.

5 Care of teenagers with cancer: a North American perspective.

Part 2 Advances.

6 Leukaemia.

7 Advances in treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

8 Hodgkin’s disease and adolescents – the lost tribe?.

9 Adolescent CNS tumours: my brain has damaged my life.

10 Ewing’s sarcoma.

11 Advances in osteosarcoma.

12 Osteosarcoma and surgery.

Part 3 Survivorship.

13 Subfertility in adolescents with cancer: who is at risk and what can be done?.

14 Body image.

15 The impact of cancer on adolescents and their families.

16 Resilience in survivors of teenage cancer: a life-adaptive approach.

17 Surviving with scars: the long-term psychosocial consequences of teenage cancer.

Part 4 Palliation.

18 Whose dying is it anyway? Palliative care in adolescence.

19 The parent’s perspective of teenage cancer.

Part 5 Controversies.

20 Who should care for young people with cancer?.

21 Patterns of care for teenagers and young adults with cancer: is there a single blueprint of care?.

22 Managing professional relationships across the services.

23 The next 10 years in biomedical science and care for teenagers and young adults with cancer