Career readiness in adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 20-29

  Strauser, David ^a   Klosky, James L ^b   Brinkman, Tara M ^b   Wong, Alex W K ^c   Chan, Fong ^d   Lanctot, Jennifer ^b   Ojha, Rohit P ^b   Robison, Leslie L ^b   Hudson, Melissa M ^b   Ness, Kirsten K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Career readiness; Childhood cancer survivor; Employment; Vocational identity

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL;

EID: 84904447978     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-014-0380-4     Document Type: Article

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