Journal
Discover Oncology
Discover Oncology is an open access journal publishing content that interfaces at all levels of cancer research.
Worldwide over 400'000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer each year. Survival in high income countries exceeds over 80%, but is much lower in middle and low income countries. Over two thirds of long term survivors of childhood and adolescence cancer will face chronic health conditions due to their cancer diagnosis and the treatment received. As most of the chronic health conditions will develop over time, a life long follow up is needed for almost all survivors. Survivorship can be improved by many factors: better risk stratification in up front treatment protocols with adapted intensity of treatment and implementation of less toxic treatment, surveillance and early intervention in case of detected long term sequelae, long term follow up and successful transition from pediatric to adult care, education of survivors etc.
Keywords: survivorship; pediatric and adolescent cancer; intervention; follow up care; transition; risk models; care models
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Katrin Scheinemann
Professor, East Children's Hospital, Switzerland She is a board certified pediatric oncologist and hematologist, working as division head of the center for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the East Children's Hospital in Switzerland. She did her pediatrics training in Switzerland, her fellowship in pediatric oncology/hematology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and then she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the McMaster Children's Hospital and McMaster University. In 2014, she returned back to Switzerland. She has many national and international positions.
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