Childhood cancer patients at school

Scolarité et devenir social après un cancer dans l’enfance

“…Les consé-quences, si elles ne sont pas sur le niveau scolaire définitif porteront sur le devenir psychosocial avec par exemple des difficultés relationnelles pouvant aller jusqu'au school bullying [28], état d'isolement et de moquerie dont sont particulière-ment atteint les enfants atteints de cancer au moment du retour à la scolarité ordinaire. Nous pouvons déterminer quels patients sont à risque de difficultés scolaires et renforcer notre prise en charge pour les enfants traités pour tumeurs cérébrales, bénéficiant d'une irradiation cérébrale ou d'une allogreffe, les très jeunes enfants et adolescents, et enfin les enfants dont les parents ont un faible niveau scolaire et ou socioprofessionnel.…”

Life balance in adult healthy siblings of individuals with childhood cancer.

“…For example, Houtzager, Grootenhuis, Hoekstra-Weebers, and Last (2005) found no difference in social functioning between healthy siblings age 7-18 and norms one month after the initial cancer diagnosis. Madan-Swain et al (1993) found no differences in siblings and norms between the ages of 5 and 16 within 2 years of the initial cancer diagnosis-findings similar to those of Lähteenmäki et al (2002). Like psychological problems, social problems in healthy siblings were rarely reported in the research, but when differences did exist, they occurred closer to the time of diagnosis (Houtzager et al, 2003;Houtzager et al, 2004;Lähteenmäki et al, 2002).…”

“…Research data were collected from secondary sources, such as parent and teacher reports (Birenbaum et al, 1989;Davies, 1983;Gerhardt et al, 2012;Lähteenmäki, Huostila, Hinkka, & Salmi, 2002), instead of collecting data from the siblings themselves. In other studies, siblings were used as the control group and were not the primary focus of the study (Larcombe, Mott, & Hunt, 2002;Tao, Julianne, Guo, & Robert, 1998;Zebrack et al, 2002;Zebrack et al, 2004;Zebrack et al, 2007).…”

“…Like psychological problems, social problems in healthy siblings were rarely reported in the research, but when differences did exist, they occurred closer to the time of diagnosis (Houtzager et al, 2003;Houtzager et al, 2004;Lähteenmäki et al, 2002). Lähteenmäki et al (2002) used school grades, healthy sibling questionnaires, and teacher questionnaires to assess the academic and social functioning of healthy siblings.…”

“…Literature has been mixed on whether academic and career outcomes suffer as a result of having a sibling diagnosed with cancer (Lähteenmäki et al, 2002;Labay & Walco, 2004). Academic and career outcomes of healthy siblings warrant further study.…”