Walking With A Shadow - Surviving Childhood Leukemia

Informationen zum Autor NANCI A. SULLIVAN has 24 years experience as a practitioner, researcher, and administrator in education and special education. Childhood cancer, particularly leukemia, is on the rise. Leukemia strikes one child in every 25,000, and most often does so between the ages of 3 and 7. Annually, more than 2,700 children are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States. Due to advances in biotechnology and medicine, survival rates for this once-deadly disease now stand at 80%. But the psychological effects of diagnosis, removal from school, treatment, and remission or cure, linger. Here nine long-term survivors of childhood leukemia share their vivid memories and give us insight into the physiological changes, psychosocial and educational difficulties that became a constant "shadow" in their lives. Author Nanci Sullivan provides recommendations for ways teachers, counselors, and other adults may better help young students with leukemia cope. Although some 80 per cent of victims survive childhood leukaemia, the incidence of the disease is rising and the survivors carry deep psychological scars. In this volume, nine long-term survivors share their memories of coping with the disease, the programmes of treatment and the shadow it has left on their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Nanci A. Sullivan, Sullivan Nanci A.
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780275958145
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95814-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; Coping with illness & specific conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, Health and Wellness: Diseases and Conditions