Handbook of Long Term Care of The Childhood Cancer Survivor
This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both established
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Grace A. Mucci Lilibeth R. Torno Editors
Handbook of Long Term Care of The Childhood Cancer Survivor
Specialty Topics in Pediatric Neuropsychology
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Grace A. Mucci • Lilibeth R. Torno Editors
Handbook of Long Term Care of The Childhood Cancer Survivor
Editors Grace A. Mucci, Ph.D., M.S. Department of Pediatric Psychology CHOC Children’s Hospital Orange, CA, USA Neuropsychology Services Newport Beach, CA, USA
Lilibeth R. Torno, M.D. Division of Oncology CHOC After Cancer Treatment Survivorship Program CHOC Children’s Hospital University of California, Irvine Orange, CA, USA
Specialty Topics in Pediatric Neuropsychology ISBN 978-1-4899-7583-6 ISBN 978-1-4899-7584-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7584-3
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Foreword
A Survivor’s Narrative: Not Just a Survivor, but Always Surviving Living in Spain from the ages of 11 to 15 as an Asian Indian girl was the best part of my life. Through the company Bechtel, my father was offered a wonderful foreign assignment opportunity to Spain for 4 years. This allowed us to travel all over, taste, and experience the Spanish culture. In August of 1984, after a 15-day trip to Italy, my left knee began hurting and persisted until December. At school, I kept falling and found it strange, as I was not particularly clumsy as a child. After a fall down a flight of stairs, I ended up in the hospital. An X-ray was done and a doctor from my father’s work was concerned that it may be bone cancer. He immediately wanted us to go to the Mayo Clinic in the United States for a second opinion. It was there at the age of 15 where I got the diagnosis of osteogenic sa
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