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In this chapter, a survivor of childhood cancer, who was diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) at the age of seven in 1989, shares about his experience with treatment and disease late effects and the need for a structured long-term aftercare.
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I would like to thank Michaela Patton from the Department of Psychology of the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) for assistance with formal language and for proofreading the manuscript. Thanks to Professor Beck for asking me to write this chapter. I would also like to thank Professor Langer for his support over the last years. For the opportunity to start a new perspective at the Gert und Susanna Mayer Foundation I thank its former managing director Eva-Maria Rief and her successor Marco Ruehmann as well as my colleagues Stefanie Vogel and Andrea Puschhof. At this point, I can finally thank Prof. Alfred Reiter and Prof. Hansjoerg Riehm for their decisions in the NHL study center to develop a therapy modification that tried to better protect me from relapse and Prof. Ulrich Goebel for the relaxed atmosphere during the chief physician visits. I do not want to forget Dipl.-Psych. Bettina Hoetzel not only for caring during my cancer therapy in Dusseldorf but also for our talkings since the end of year 2016 in Cologne. I dedicate this chapter on professional side to Professor Heribert Juergens for his efforts during my treatment in Dusseldorf in the years 1989 and 1990 and on personal side to my parents for their support in that period of my life I described here though my mother must read this chapter in heaven.
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Mueller, C. (2021). Long-Term Follow-Up of Childhood Cancer Patients from the Point of View of a Person Affected. In: Beck, J.D., Bokemeyer, C., Langer, T. (eds) Late Treatment Effects and Cancer Survivor Care in the Young. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49140-6_41
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