Paediatric psycho-oncology
While treating children with cancer, psychological care may be missed while the paediatric oncology teams are busy treating the biological disease. A broad overview of emotional issues in children with cancer was discussed in an editorial published by us in 2023. (Access here)
If you want to learn about paediatric psycho-oncology in further detail you can access the introductory book chapter on Paediatric Psycho-oncology in the IACAPAP textbook on child and adolescent mental health here.
Information needs of children with cancer and their parents were explored by one of our PhD scholars and we encourage you to read her full paper accessed here.
Learning about paediatric oncology requires a framework for developing countries and we discussed this in our paper here.
References
- Chaudhuri, T, Nandakumar, D, Datta, SS, Husain, Z, Sukumaran, RS, Yadav, IS, Krishnan, S and Panda, S (2022) Information-Sharing Experiences of Professionals Looking after Children with Cancer: A Qualitative Exploration from a Specialist Paediatric Oncology Unit in India. Ecancermedicalscience 16 (May): 1399.
- Datta SS, Cardona L, Mahanta P, Younus S, Lax-Pericall MT. Pediatric psycho-oncology: Supporting children with cancer. In Rey JM, Martin A (eds), JM Rey’s IACAPAP e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Geneva: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions 2019.
- Datta, S.S. (2023) Children with cancer: Are we healing the body & missing the mind? Indian J of Medical Research 158(4): 327-329 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1870_23 (Access here)
- Datta,SS, Mukherjee,A (2021) “My cancer is cured, but I do not feel normal”: A commentary on neuropsychological outcomes of pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia in India. Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment 4 (1), 11. DOI: 10.4103/crst.crst_49_21
- Datta SS, Ojha A, Saha T et al (2019) What do you need to learn in paediatric psycho-oncology? Ecancermedicalscience 13: 916. DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2019.916