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Psychiatric aspects of bone marrow transplantation: Part II: Life beyond transplant
Author(s) -
Lesko Lynna M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.2960020304
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , bone marrow transplantation , aplastic anemia , disease , transplantation , psychiatry , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , bone marrow , surgery , nursing
As delineated in Part I of this series, bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is being used as an innovative and often curative treatment for many hematological and solid tumor cancers, and non‐malignant diseases such as aplastic anemia, severe combined immunodeficiency disease and hereditary syndromes (thalassemia and the mucopolysaccharide dyscrasias). Currently there is a small but burgeoning field of literature that is investigating the medical sequelae, psychological, social and sexual adjustment (and quality of life) after having undergone a successful transplant. A knowledge of the long‐term medical toxicity of BMT is mandatory in the light of its influences on psychological convalescence and recovery. Part II of this series (1) briefly describes the long‐term medical sequelae of BMT, (2) addresses clinical papers and research in the area of quality of life after BMT, and (3) explores psychological and psychosocial predictors in BMT adjustment.