Optimal care for the child with cancer: A summary statement from the SIOP Working Committee on Psychosocial Issues in Pediatric Oncology.
Since its foundation in 1991, the SIOP Working Committee on Psychosocial Issues in Paediatric Oncology1 has developed and published 12 sets of Guidelines for health-care professionals treating children with cancer and their families. Those elements considered essential in the process of cure and care of children with cancer are summarized in this document as a formal statement, developed at the 2007 SIOP annual meeting in Mumbai. Elaboration of the concepts with detailed strategies for practice can be found in the referenced guidelines [1-12] and in a companion publication [13]. This article is a summary of what practitioners considered critical elements in the optimal care of the child with cancer, with the goal of stimulating a broader application of these elements throughout the SIOP membership.
Spinetta
John J
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Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
Jankovic
Momcilo
M
Masera
Giuseppe
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Ablin
Arthur R
AR
Barr
Ronald D
RD
Ben Arush
Myriam Weyl
MW
D'Angio
Giulio J
GJ
Van Dongen-Melman
Jeanette
J
Eden
Tim
T
Epelman
Claudia
C
Martins
Antonio Gentil
AG
Greenberg
Mark L
ML
Kosmidis
Helen Vasiliatou
HV
Oppenheim
Daniel
D
Zeltzer
Paul M
PM
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