Greatest needs
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Diagnoses
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During treatment
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- Emotional support
- Family time and play
- Pain relief
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After treatment
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- Normality
- Adjust to life outside hospital
- Back to school support
- Teacher educating
- Re-establish friends
- Deal with health issues causes by cancer / treatment
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Terminally ill
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- Emotional support
- Family time and play
- Pain relief
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Needs most likely to be unmet
- Complete, honest and age appropriate information about the
impact of cancer
- Help to deal with uncertainty of the future
- Help to deal with feeling frustrated and being unable to do
things others can do
- For older children, the need to talk to someone their own age
who had gone through a similar experience
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