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A holiday break for adolescents provided by the Malcolm Sargent cancer fund for children
Author(s) -
STIRTON J.,
POWNALL J.,
CARROON B.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2354.1997.00026.x
Subject(s) - medicine , unit (ring theory) , gerontology , family medicine , mathematics , mathematics education
The paper describes a holiday for a group of adolescents with cancer (from the Young Oncology Unit at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK) at Malcolm Sargent House, Prestwick, Scotland. The aim was to provide an opportunity for young people with cancer to build and to develop therapeutic relationships away from the pressures of hospital, home and treatment. The nature and range of care given by the nurses and social worker who accompanied them is described and includes accounts of individual progress which are demonstrated by brief case studies.