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Education and health promotion in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors
Author(s) -
Hudson Melissa M.,
Patte Catherine
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pediatric blood and cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.116
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1545-5017
pISSN - 1545-5009
DOI - 10.1002/pbc.21458
Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , health promotion , promotion (chess) , prioritization , disease , cancer , gerontology , family medicine , medline , nursing , public health , management science , politics , political science , law , economics
Abstract The increasing numbers of long‐term adolescent and young adult cancer survivors and their well‐established risk of cancer‐related morbidity strongly support the need for effective health promotion programs that motivate and sustain positive lifestyle changes. To date, the priority of these initiatives has been relatively low as only a handful of studies have been organized that prospectively evaluate lifestyle interventions and health education curricula with these aims. To effectively integrate lifestyle interventions into pediatric oncology care, prioritization and funding of health promotion research efforts must be comparable to that of disease control in frontline cancer trials. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2008:50:1105–1108. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.