Paul Imbach • Thomas Kühne
Robert J. Arceci
Editors

2014

A Comprehensive Guide

The healing process in children and adolescents with oncological diseases depends greatly on the knowledge and experience of all those involved in the patients’ care: physicians, specialist nurses, psycho-oncologists and others. This last group embraces parents, siblings and teachers as well as laboratory staff, physiotherapists, chaplains, social workers and other hospital personnel. Increasingly, the patients’ general practitioners and pediatricians and external nurses are also becoming involved. Knowledge and experience on the part of caregivers are necessary for a complete picture of the patient, who is thus enabled to play a full part in his or her own healthcare: the power of the informed patient.