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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2005 30(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsi010
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Journal of Pediatric Psychology vol. 30 no. 1 © Society of Pediatric Psychology 2005; all rights reserved.

Foreword: Looking Beyond Cure: Pediatric Cancer as a Model

Julia H. Rowland, PhD

Office of Cancer Survivorship, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

All correspondence should be sent to Julia H. Rowland, PhD, Director, Office of Cancer Survivorship, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd, Room 4086, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. E-mail: rowlandj@mail.nih.gov.

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In treating and controlling cancer, the most dramatic evidence of progress is that seen in childhood cancer. Once almost uniformly fatal, pediatric cancer has become a commonly curable illness in the last 30 years. For children diagnosed with cancer, the current 5-year cancer-free survival rate is 79%, and the 10-year survival rate is approaching 75% (Rowland et al., 2004Go). These figures already surpass the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000)Go Healthy People 2010 goal (Rowland et al., 2004Go) of 5-year survival for 70% of those diagnosed with cancer, and they exceed that for the adult population, where 5-year survival currently stands at 64%. Although pediatric cancer survivors currently represent less than 2% of the 9.8 million cancer survivors in the United States, they are in many respects the vanguard of survivorship.[B3] With the growing population of those living years beyond a cancer diagnosis, survivorship has emerged . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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