Author: Keith Crabtree, PhD

Transition from cancer treatment to everyday life isn’t as easy as it seems, for parents or pediatric patients. Like career, marriage, family and other major life events, going from cancer treatment to everyday life, while exciting, can cause stress and anxiety. A new St. Jude program fills this gap in psychosocial support. The Transition Oncology Program helps survivors get life sorted out when they’re possibly the most vulnerable, in between hospital care and After Completion of Therapy checkups. Emily Browne, DNP, is the program’s director. Will my child adjust to school? Does this bruise mean the return of cancer?...