A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

This book discusses the most important practical aspects involved in providing multidisciplinary Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) services for cancer patients. It draws on international experience in several continents of establishing and running such services and provides a contemporary, practical approach to AYA care based on accumulated experience. It is of interest to those establishing or seeking to improve AYA services as well as those already caring for AYA cance patients.

Among topics discussed are incidence trends and treatment pathways, access to clinical trials for adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult services, psychological support and social care as well as survivorship and fertility.

This book is of value of those establishing new services, those developing an existing service and those whose work includes the care of AYA patients. It is an important companion for pediatricians, oncologists as well as o

ther medical, nursing and allied health professionals caring for Adolescents and Yound Adults with cancer.

Dr Julia Chisholm Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Children and Young People`s Unit, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Down`s Road, Sutton, SM2 5PT
Rachael Hough is a Consultant Haematologist and Transplant Physician at University College London Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust.  She has worked exclusively with TYA patients with haematological malignancies since her consultant appointment in 2005. She has specialist expertise in the management of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in this age group and the use of umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of haemopoietic stem cells. She established a national BSBMT affiliated UK Cord Blood Working Group and has worked closely with the Department of Health, Stem Cell Strategic Forum and All Party Parliamentary Group of stem cells to promote the use of cord blood and to expand the national cord blood repository.  She was also the chief investigator of 2 NCRI adopted clinical trials of umbilical cord blood transplantation in children, adolescents and adults and a co-coordinator of the TYA aspects of the national ALL protocols, UKALL2003 and UKALL2011. TYA-specific leadership roles have included Lead Clinician of the UCLH Children and Young People's Cancer Service 2008-2017, Chair of the North Thames TYA Cancer Network since 2012, Chair of the NHS England Teenage and Young Adult Clinical Reference Group 2012-2016 and Chair of NHS England's Children and Young People's Clinical Reference Group since 2016.

Louise Soanes
Teenage Cancer Trust Nurse Consultant for Adolescents and Young Adults
Teenage Cancer Trust Unit. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Downs Road, Sutton. Surrey. SM2 5PT