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Cancer: Multiple Services for Children Dying of Cancer and for Their Families

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Over the past 30 years, scientific and technological advances have improved the overall survival of pediatric cancer patients from 10 % to more than 70 %. In spite of the dramatic progress in the treatment of childhood cancer, about one-fourth of children with cancer still die from the disease (Sirkia, Saarinen, Ahlgren, & Hovi, 1997). Unfortunately, improvements in the management of care at the end of life of children with cancer or the promotion of a healthy resolution of the child’s death by his or her family have not kept pace with the clinical advances directed at cure (Morgan & Murphy, 2000; Wolfe et al., 2000 a). One plausible explanation for these findings is that, at present, curative therapy and palliative treatment are perceived as dichotomous (American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2000). Consequently, palliative care is often instituted only after life-prolonging care is no longer available (American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 1998). Until then, both...

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Acknowledgments

Thanks and appreciation are due to the multidisciplinary staff for their dedication and collaboration in the implementation of preventive intervention for children with cancer at the end-of-life, in particular Professor M. Weyl Ben-Arush, Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, and to physicians S. Postovsky, R. Elhasid, and A. Ben Barak.

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    Ciporah S. Tadmor

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Tadmor, C.S. (2014). Cancer: Multiple Services for Children Dying of Cancer and for Their Families. In: Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_310

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