Abstract:Survival rates for pediatric cancer have improved significantly over the past few decades. However, the journey from diagnosis to treatment and then follow-up is challenging. Families of children with cancer struggle with an acute life-altering disease as well as with long-term possible chronic complications. In most types of pediatric cancer, the duration of the treatment is long and both the child and caregivers may spend many months in the hospital, which affects the child, their entire family, and those cl… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.