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Thanks to progress in medical treatment, in recent years, pediatric cancer has been transformed from a primarily acute and fatal condition to (in more than 80 % of cases) a curable disease with long-lasting physical, psychological, and social implications.
Demanding and increasingly successful applied therapies such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation present additional challenges to sick children and their families.
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Di Gallo, A., Westhoff, K. (2014). Psychology and Psychosocial Issues in Children with Cancer. In: Imbach, P., Kühne, T., Arceci, R. (eds) Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06010-1_21
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