1. Greatest Needs & Unmet Needs of Children with Cancer

Greatest needs

Diagnoses

  • Information

During treatment

  • Emotional support
  • Family time and play
  • Pain relief

After treatment

  • Normality
  • Adjust to life outside hospital
  • Back to school support
  • Teacher educating
  • Re-establish friends
  • Deal with health issues causes by cancer / treatment

Terminally ill

  • Emotional support
  • Family time and play
  • Pain relief

 

 

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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