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Edited by Maria Hewitt, Susan L Weiner, Joseph V Simone. Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2003, £23.95, pp 206. ISBN 0 309 08898 4
Faced with another book about survivors of childhood cancer, the first thing to ask was, “Is this any different from the others? What does it add that other recently published books or the latest detailed reviews have not already said? Will it be just another list of the late effects of therapy?” But this book is indeed different. It is a report from the National Cancer Policy Board in the United States as part of an initiative to address issues of concern for cancer survivors and does, I think, move forward the discussion about how the care for patients who have survived cancer should be provided. But how far?
The report determines that “an individual is considered a cancer survivor from the …