Young people with cancer have suffered from not being recognized aseither children or adult patients. The lack of an adequate numberof centres, properly equipped for teenage cancer care, isacknowledged worldwide. Yet their needs, both physically andpsychologically, are perhaps the most acute of all.Now, this book, based on an international conference hosted bythe Teenage Cancer Trust, addresses the issues surrounding care ofthe adolescent with cancer more completely than ever before.Some chapters provide practical information from leadingspecialists on managing and treating the specific tumours affectingthis group whilst others present discussions by psychologists,nurses and other healthcare professionals on the many lifestyleissues that confront teenagers with cancer. Finally and maybe, mostimportantly, contributions from patients and carers give an insightinto what it feels like to have the disease while growing intoadulthood.With its insight into the problems, and guidance on bestpractice, this book will be welcomed by all professionals andcarers who work with young people with cancer.

1 A right not a privilege!.Part 1 Patterns and perspectives.2 Patterns of incidence of cancer in teenagers and young adults:implications for aetiology.3 Lack of participation of older adolescents and young adultswith cancer in clinical trials: impact in the USA.4 Adolescents and cancer: perspectives from France.5 Care of teenagers with cancer: a North Americanperspective.Part 2 Advances.6 Leukaemia.7 Advances in treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.8 Hodgkin's disease and adolescents - the losttribe?.9 Adolescent CNS tumours: my brain has damaged my life.10 Ewing's sarcoma.11 Advances in osteosarcoma.12 Osteosarcoma and surgery.Part 3 Survivorship.13 Subfertility in adolescents with cancer: who is at risk andwhat can be done?.14 Body image.15 The impact of cancer on adolescents and their families.16 Resilience in survivors of teenage cancer: a life-adaptiveapproach.17 Surviving with scars: the long-term psychosocial consequencesof teenage cancer.Part 4 Palliation.18 Whose dying is it anyway? Palliative care in adolescence.19 The parent's perspective of teenage cancer.Part 5 Controversies.20 Who should care for young people with cancer?.21 Patterns of care for teenagers and young adults with cancer:is there a single blueprint of care?.22 Managing professional relationships across the services.23 The next 10 years in biomedical science and care forteenagers and young adults with cancer