In Their Own Voices: Experiences of Children and Adolescents with Cancer

Abstract

This chapter discusses the experiences of children and adolescents with cancer. Using a list of 304 adult survivors of pediatric cancer, an oncologist who knew the patients selected 66 adults without cognitive impairment who were representative of pediatric cancer diagnoses and were over sampled to ensure ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. 1 was able to reach 40 of these adults within a month of the letters being sent, and 37 agreed to participate, with only 1 person explicitly refusing. While 5 people could not be interviewed due to time constraints, 32 adults with childhood cancer were interviewed in person, almost all in their homes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)