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 models of care and targeted models of lifelong surveillance of late effects by bodily systems and neurological outcomes. Sections devoted to quality of life and re-entry after treatment focus on key concerns such as health risk behaviors, school and career issues, psychological challenges, and care disparities. And a robust resources section adds extra usefulness to the expert coverage.

Among the Handbook's topics:

• Developmental considerations in the transition from child and adolescent to adult survivorship.
• Long-term follow-up roadmaps by disease and treatment.
• Neuropsychological effects of pediatric brain tumors and associated treatment.
• Building resiliency in childhood cancer survivors: a clinician’s perspective.
• School issues and educational strategies for survivors of childhood cancer.
• Educating and preparing the childhood cancer survivor for long-term care: a curriculum model for cancer centers.

A work of rare scope, scholarship, and clinical acumen, the Handbook of Long-Term Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor is a rewarding, practice-building resource essential to a wide range of healing professionals, including primary care physicians, pediatricians, oncologists, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, child psychologists, and licensed therapists.

Grace A. Mucci, Ph.D., ABPdN is director of Neuropsychology Services at the CHOC Children’s Hospital in Seal Beach, California. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1995. Her primary research interests involve the neurocognitive correlates in epilepsy and cancer. Dr Mucci is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.

Lilibeth R. Torno, MD, is Clinical Director of Oncology Outpatient Services at CHOC Children’s Hospital, University of California, Irvine. She leads the ACTS (After the Cancer Treatment Survivorship) program as well as the Ambulatory Care Services at the CHOC Cancer Institute. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology. Dr. Torno completed her fellowship training at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She completed her residency at CHOC. She attended medical school at University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.