Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The Information SchoolYoung adult cancer survivors-individuals diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 18 and 39-face health and quality of life challenges long after treatment ends.Issues survivors face include forming and maintaining relationships, coping with unemployment or lack of health insurance, and struggling with lasting cancer recurrence risk or diminished fertility.Young adult survivors must cope with all of these problems while navigating health information for cancer survivors that is often written for a much older audience, and therefore lacks relevance.This growing population of health care consumers (72,000 individuals diagnosed each year, plus an estimated 600,000 young adult cancer survivors in the U.S. as of 2012) requires a more systematic approach for meeting their needs.To enhance and expand understanding of the
Author: Jordan Eschler
Language: English
Topic: Cancer survivorship and care
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2795814808