Implementing long-term follow-up after pediatric cancer: ethical tensions and survivors' perspective
Résumé
How the cancer episode is perceived has an impact on how the follow-up is approached. People for whom cancer is an episode of the past may be less concerned with follow-up than those for whom cancer is experienced as a chronic condition. However, this perception does not always correspond to the medically assessed state of health: the perception of cancer episode depends on the pathology/the perceived health status/the late effects of treatments/the existing medical follow-up, evolves in the same person according to the occurrence of symptoms related to lateeffects/knowledge about the risk of lateeffect/intensification or termination of followup, etc., fluctuates according to time of life and constraints or expectations associated with them. II. Different Expectations at Different Times of Life: Needs and expectations regarding LTFU vary significantly according to age, periods of life, and related constraints, or to the acceptance of the medical history that sometimes evolves:
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