Tag: Childhood Cancer Survivors
Ensuring Happy, Productive Lives for Childhood Cancer Survivors
Overall childhood cancer survival rates now approach 80%. That is an exciting statistic! In childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), cure rates are as high as 95% in some patient groups. When you think back to the mid 60âēs, when ALL cure rates were only 5% â that is a phenomenal improvement. And why??? The multi-institutional…
Psychological Challenges of Surviving Cancer
About 11 million Americans alive today â one in 30 people â are either currently undergoing treatment for cancer or have done so in the past. The National Cancer Institute considers all to be cancer survivors. Many would attest that cancer is not only life-threatening, but also life-altering.Cancer and its treatment sometimes leave scars and…