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Cancer’s Positive Flip Side: Posttraumatic Growth After Childhood Cancer Support Care Cancer, 2016. 24(1): P. 195-203.
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Cancer’s Positive Flip Side: Posttraumatic Growth After Childhood Cancer Support Care Cancer, 2016. 24(1): P. 195-203.

We aimed to (1) describe PTG in Swiss childhood cancer survivors including the most and the least common PTG phenomena on the subscale and item levels and (2) determine factors associated with PTG.

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Background Surviving childhood cancer may result in positive psychological changes called posttraumatic growth (PTG).

Knowing about the possibility of positive changes may facilitate survivors’ reintegration into daily life.

We aimed to (1) describe PTG in Swiss childhood cancer survivors including the most and the least common PTG phenomena on the subscale and item levels and (2) determine factors associated with PTG.

Continue reading · Psychosocial Care“I Wish Someone Had Once Asked Me How I’m Doing”: Disadvantages and Support Needs Faced by Parents of Long-Term Childhood Cancer SurvivorsThis publication focuses on the parents’ perspective of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) and how cancer affects the whole family. Initially, the authors describe the parents' perspective by looking into the disadvantages and of their support needs during treatment, after treatment, and today. Secondly, the article focuses on the characteristics associated with disadvantages and support needs and lastly, with the use of existing support services.

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