Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults
Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults
Book Details
Hardcover: 534 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540408428
ISBN-13: 978-3540408420.
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive book devoted exclusively to cancer in adolescents and young adults. It compiles medical, epidemiological, biological, psychological, and emotional issues of young adults’ oncology. The emphasis is on the differences of the “same” cancer in younger and older patients. Model programs specially designed to care for patients in the age group and surveillance of long-term adverse effects are reviewed.
