Psychosocial consequences of surviving cancer diagnosed and treated in childhood versus in adolescence/young adulthood: A call for clearer delineation between groups

Anne-Sophie E Darlington¹, Claire E Wakefield^{2

3}, Loes M E van Erp⁴, Winette T A van der Graaf^{5

6}, Richard J Cohn^{2

3}, Martha A Grootenhuis⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
² Kids Cancer Center, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Behavioral Sciences Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Anne-Sophie E Darlington et al. Cancer. 2022.

Free article

. 2022 Jul 15;128(14):2690-2694.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.34257. Epub 2022 May 17.

Anne-Sophie E Darlington¹, Claire E Wakefield^{2

3}, Loes M E van Erp⁴, Winette T A van der Graaf^{5

6}, Richard J Cohn^{2

3}, Martha A Grootenhuis⁴

¹ School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
² Kids Cancer Center, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Behavioral Sciences Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Keywords: adolescent and young adult; childhood; outcomes; psychosocial; survivorship.

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