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A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

  • Deals with generic AYA issues, discussing topics of international relevance sharing their clinical perspective

  • Provides valuable information to those developing AYA services

  • Draws on the extensive AYA experience of authors, discussing AYA services from both an academic and clinical perspective

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Overview of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer

    • Martin G. McCabe
    Pages 1-18
  3. Cancer Research and AYA

    • Lorna A. Fern, Jeremy Whelan
    Pages 19-35
  4. Models of Delivery of Care for AYA

    • Dan Stark, Andrea Ferrari
    Pages 37-55
  5. Psychological Support and Social Care

    • Lucy Holland, Kate Thompson
    Pages 57-81
  6. AYA Survivorship

    • Victoria Grandage, Susan Mehta, Rachael Windsor
    Pages 115-131
  7. Fertility in the Adolescent and Young Adult Patient with Cancer

    • Nivedita Reddy, Caroline L. Furness, Melanie C. Davies
    Pages 153-178
  8. Palliative Care in Adolescents and Young Adults

    • Anna-Karenia Anderson
    Pages 179-209
  9. Caring for the Carers

    • Lesley Edwards, Laura Beek
    Pages 239-260

About this book

This book discusses the most important practical aspects involved in providing multidisciplinary Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) services for cancer patients. It draws on international experience in several continents of establishing and running such services and provides a contemporary, practical approach to AYA care based on accumulated experience. It is of interest to those establishing or seeking to improve AYA services as well as those already caring for AYA cance patients.
Among topics discussed are incidence trends and treatment pathways, access to clinical trials for adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult services, psychological support and social care as well as survivorship and fertility.


This book is of value of those establishing new services, those developing an existing service and those whose work includes the care of AYA patients. It is an important companion for pediatricians, oncologists as well as o

ther medical, nursing and allied health professionals caring for Adolescents and Yound Adults with cancer.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, United Kingdom

    Julia Chisholm

  • University College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Rachel Hough, Louise Soanes

About the editors

Dr Julia Chisholm Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Children and Young People`s Unit, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Down`s Road, Sutton, SM2 5PT

Rachael Hough is a Consultant Haematologist and Transplant Physician at University College London Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust.  She has worked exclusively with TYA patients with haematological malignancies since her consultant appointment in 2005. She has specialist expertise in the management of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in this age group and the use of umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of haemopoietic stem cells. She established a national BSBMT affiliated UK Cord Blood Working Group and has worked closely with the Department of Health, Stem Cell Strategic Forum and All Party Parliamentary Group of stem cells to promote the use of cord blood and to expand the national cord blood repository.  She was also the chief investigator of 2 NCRI adopted clinical trials of umbilical cord blood transplantation in children, adolescents and adults and a co-coordinator of the TYA aspects of the national ALL protocols, UKALL2003 and UKALL2011. TYA-specific leadership roles have included Lead Clinician of the UCLH Children and Young People's Cancer Service 2008-2017, Chair of the North Thames TYA Cancer Network since 2012, Chair of the NHS England Teenage and Young Adult Clinical Reference Group 2012-2016 and Chair of NHS England’s Children and Young People’s Clinical Reference Group since 2016.

Louise Soanes

Teenage Cancer Trust Nurse Consultant for Adolescents and Young Adults

Teenage Cancer Trust Unit. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Downs Road, Sutton. Surrey. SM2 5PT

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

  • Editors: Julia Chisholm, Rachel Hough, Louise Soanes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66173-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66172-8Published: 15 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09762-2Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66173-5Published: 27 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology, Pediatrics, Nursing, Clinical Psychology

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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