The future of children cured of cancer. Insertion into adult life
Schweisguth, O.
Archives Francaises de Pediatrie 42(1): 49-52
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9764 PMID: 3157359 Document Number: 249826
The socio-professional future of adults cured from a malignant solid tumor of childhood has been evaluated in 356 out of 476 patients followed 5 to 36 years after diagnosis (median: 17 years). Their professions appear similar to those observed in people of the same age, except for 2/3 of brain tumor patients who are more or less severely handicapped. Couples have been formed by 165 patients, 20 of them severely handicapped. Most of these people take an ardent interest in life, and part of them harbor a more or less secrete anguish of relapse. The conditions of their familial and socio-economic life play an important role in their adaptation to the life of a "cured from cancer patient".