Education and health promotion in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.

Full Abstract

The increasing numbers of long-term adolescent and young adult cancer survivors and their well-established risk of cancer-related morbidity strongly support the need for effective health promotion programs that motivate and sustain positive lifestyle changes. To date, the priority of these initiatives has been relatively low as only a handful of studies have been organized that prospectively evaluate lifestyle interventions and health education curricula with these aims. To effectively integrate lifestyle interventions into pediatric oncology care, prioritization and funding of health promotion research efforts must be comparable to that of disease control in frontline cancer trials.Copyright 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Author information

Author/s: Hudson, Melissa M (MM); Patte, Catherine (C);

Affiliation: Department of Clinical Oncology and Division of Cancer Survivorship, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA. melissa.hudson(-atsign-)stjude.org

Grants: CA 21765 (Agency:United States NCI)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Review

Journal: Pediatric blood & cancer (Pediatr Blood Cancer), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-May; vol 50 (issue 5 Suppl) : pp 1105-8

Dates: Created 2008/04/02; Completed 2008/05/14;

PMID: 18360833, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Health Education - organization & administration
Health Promotion - organization & administration
Humans
Life Style
Male
Neoplasms - mortality; psychology
Neoplasms, Second Primary - epidemiology; prevention & control
Survivors - psychology; statistics & numerical data

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