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Education and health promotion in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: The increasing numbers of long-term adolescent and young adult cancer survivors and their well-established risk of cancer-related morbidity strongly support the need for effective health promotion programs that motivate and sustain positive lifestyle changes. To date, the priority of these initiatives has been relatively low as only a handful of studies have been organized that prospectively evaluate lifestyle interventions and health education curricula with these aims. To effectively integrate lifestyle interventions into pediatric oncology care, prioritization and funding of health promotion research efforts must be comparable to that of disease control in frontline cancer trials.

Source: Pediatric Blood & Cancer

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21458

Authors: Melissa M. Hudson, Catherine Patte

Institutions: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Institut Gustave Roussy

Language: English

Topic: Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Subfield: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, National Cancer Institute