By Cindy L. Schwartz, Wendy L. Hobbie, Louis S. Constine, Kathleen S. Ruccione
At the present time, three-quarters of youngsters and youth with melanoma live to tell the tale. Survivors are predisposed by way of their remedy to illnesses that won't turn into obvious till they mature or start to age. For healthcare services who deal with early life melanoma survivors in long term follow-up courses, and for these services who're more and more more likely to come across formative years melanoma survivors of their practices, this e-book is a entire consultant to the overall healthiness concerns in survivorship. The symptom-specific tables and disease-specific algorithms make this reference effortless to exploit in medical settings.
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Characterized as “domains” of function, declines among children treated with both radiation therapy and chemotherapy to the CNS have been well documented. , the ability to allocate attentional resources to planning and organization, may be one of the most impacted. Although often difficult to directly measure, children affected may spend significant time “working” to learn, but realize a relatively limited return from their efforts. The ability to sustain concentration on a specific task is critical to the acquisition of new knowledge and is frequently impacted in such children.
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 35 35 36 37 39 39 40 . . . . . . 1 Introduction Treatment for childhood cancer can result in damaging effects on the central nervous system (CNS). The spectrum of potential toxicities includes paralysis, neuropathies, blindness, and seizures. Furthermore, survivors may experience decline in intellectual function, learning problems, behavior disorders, school failure, and impaired employability. Although these phenomena were originally described for children who underwent cranial radiation, subsequent studies have demonstrated that children treated only with chemotherapy are also at risk for neurological deficits.
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