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Useful Resources for Healthcare Professionals Working With Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer

A Study of the Decision Making Process surrounding Sperm Storage for Adolescent Minors within Paediatric Oncology
M. Cranshaw, A. Glaser, J. Hale, L. Phelan, P. Sloper
Dept of Social Policy & Social Work, University of York

Bridging the Gaps: Health Care for Adolescents
RCPCH, 2003                                        
ISBN: 1 900954 834

Cancer and the Adolescent (First Edition)
P. Selby, C. Bailey (eds) 
BMJ Publishing Group, 1996                    
ISBN: 0-7279-0893-6

Cancer and the Adolescent (Second Edition)
T.O.B. Eden, R.D. Barr, A. Bleyer and M. Whiteson (eds)
BMJ Publishing Group, 2005 
ISBN: 0-7279-1810-9

Cancer Care for Adolescents and Young Adults

Editors: Dr Daniel Kelly, Middlesex University, London and Dr Faith Gibson, Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

Blackwell, 2008

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3094-3

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405130943

Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults (Pediatric Oncology)
Bleyer, Archie W. (MD Anderson Cancer Center); Barr, Ronald Duncan
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K (Mar 2007) (Hardback)
ISBN - 9783540408420
http://www.wisepress.com/cgi-bin/showgoods.cgi?gid=59121
This book presents the general differences in prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. The emphasis is on how the cancer in the age group differs from the 'same' cancer in younger and older patients.

Cancer in Young Adults
A. Grinyer
Open University Press, 2002
ISBN: 978-0-335-212309

Palliative Care for Young People Aged 13-24 Years: Report of the Joint Working Party of ACT National Council for Hspice and Specialist Palliative Care Services & SPAPCC
ACT, National Council for Hospice and specialist Palliative Care Services & SPAPCC, Sept 2001 ISBN: 1-898-447-06-3

Young People Living with Cancer: Implications for Policy and Practice
A. Grinyer
Open University Press, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-335-22154

Journals

Accuracy of Assessment of Distress, Anxiety, and Depression by Physicians and Nurses in Adolescents Recently Diagnosed with Cancer
Mariann Hedstromm, RN, PhD; Anders Kreuger, MD, PhD; Gustaf Ljungman, MD, PhD; Peter Nygren, MD, PhD and Louise von Essen, PhD
Paediatric Blood Cancer 2006;46:773-779

Review: Cancer Surveillance and Control in Adolescnets – Similaries and Contrasts Between Canada and the United States
Ronald D. Bar, MB, ChB, MD, FRCP (Glasg), FRCP (Lond), FRCP (C), FACP, FRCPath, FRCPH and Mark L. Greenberg, OC, MB, ChB, FRCP (C), FAAP
Paediatric Blood Cancer 2006;46:273-277 

Health-Risk Behaviours Among Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Catherine Bauld, PhD; J.W. Toumbourou, PhD; V. Anderson, PhD; C.Coffrey, Grad Dip Epi, and C.A. Olsson, PhD
Paediatric Blood Cancer 2005;45:706-715 

A Different Way of Being: Adolescents’ Experiences with Cancer
Roberta Lynn Woodgate PdD, RN
Cancer Nursing 2005; 28 (1): 8-15 

Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults Aged 15-24 Years: A Report From the North of England Young Person’s Malignant Disease Registry, UK
Mark S. Pearce, PhD; Louise Parker, PhD; Kevin P. Windebank, DM; Simon J Cotterill, BA, Alan W. Craft, MD
Paediatric Blood Cancer 2005; 45:687-693

Geographical patterns and time trends of cancer incidence and time trends of cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents in Europe since the 1970s (the ACIS project): an epidemiological study
The Lancet Volume 364, Issue 9451, 11 December 2004 Pages 2097-2015
Eva Sterliarove-Foucher, PhD, Charles Stiller, MSc, Peter Kaatsch, PhD, Franco berrino, MD, Jan-Willem Coebergh, MD, Brigitte Lacour, MD and Max Parkin, MD 

Adolescents with Cancer: Experience of Life and Making it Easier
Hannele Hokkanen, MNSc, RN; Elina Erikkson, PhD, RN; Outi Ahonen, MNSc, RN; Sanna Salantera, PD, RN
Cancer Nursing 27 (4): 325-335, 2004

Epidemiology of cancer in adolescents
Charles Stiller, Childhood Cancer Research Group
Medical Paediatric Oncology, Issue 39(3), September 2002 Pages 149-155 

Issues in Providing Health Maintenance to Adolescents
Christine Pintz, RNC, MSN, FNP
Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing eJournal 2(2), 2002

Survival from Adolescent Cancer in Yorkshire, UK
J.R. Wilkinson; R.G. Feltbower; I.J. Lewis; R.C. Parslow; P.A. McKinney
European Journal of Cancer 37 (2001) 903-911

Benefits from Specialised Cancer Care
P Selby; C Gillis, R Haward
The Lancet 1996 Volume 348

Useful Resources for Parents/Patients/Teachers

All in the Zap – Our unofficial guide to Radiotherapy
Teenagers – Piam Brown Ward             
Piam Brown Ward, Southampton General Hospital

Fighting The Big ‘C’
Sarah J Palmer                                     
ISBN: 0-9515876-2-5

Relationships, Sex and Fertility for young people affected by cancer
CancerBACUP, 2005                                           
ISBN: 1-904370-97-7

Body Image, Sexuality and Cancer
Cancerlink 2nd Ed. Jan 1991                                
ISBN: 1-870534-21-2 

Body and Soul: Children, Teenagers and Cancer
Dr Mark Ragg                            
Hill of Content Publising, Melbourne 1994 
ISBN: 0-85572-252-5

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