(Ebook) Walking with a Shadow: Surviving Childhood Leukemia by Nanci A. Sullivan ISBN 9780275958145, 9780313051395, 0275958140, 0313051399

(Ebook) Walking with a Shadow: Surviving Childhood Leukemia by Nanci A. Sullivan ISBN 9780275958145, 9780313051395, 0275958140, 0313051399

Childhood cancer, particularly leukemia, is on the rise. Leukemia strikes one child in every 25,000, and most often does so between the ages of 3 and 7. Annually, more than 2,700 children are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States. Due to advances in biotechnology and medicine, survival rates for this once-deadly disease now stand at 80%. But the psychological effects of diagnosis, removal from school, treatment, and remission or cure, linger. Here nine long-term survivors of childhood leukemia share their vivid memories and give us insight into the physiological changes, psychosocial and educational difficulties that became a constant shadow in their lives. Author Nanci Sullivan provides recommendations for ways teachers, counselors and other professionals may better help young students with leukemia cope.