Childhood Cancer Survivors

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Lisa Bashore, PhD, APRN is an Oncology Nurse Practitioner at Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, Texas. Her career spans 25 years including 14 years as the coordinator/manager of the Life After Cancer Program and Cook Children's. Her current clinical practice focuses on children/adolescents with cancer and genetic predisposition syndromes and how genetics impacts cancer care and survivorship. Joanne Quillen, MSN, APRN has been a Pediatric Oncology Nurse Practitioner for 19 years. In 2008, she started the first Pediatric Survivorship Program in the state of Delaware at Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington. She enjoys working every day with survivors and families.

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There are an estimated to be nearly 500,00 survivors of childhood cancer in the United States and this number is expected to increase as survival rates improve. The new fourth edition provides the latest information on medical late effects from treatment, emotional aspects of surviving cancer, guidance for follow-up care, a new chapter on genetics along with personal experiences from survivors and family members.