Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters

A. Dumas, I. Cailbault, C. Perrey, O. Oberlin, F. De Vathaire and P. Amiel

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 135, issue C, 67-74

Abstract: With the increase in survival from childhood cancer, research has increasingly focused on the educational and professional achievements of childhood cancer survivors. Yet, if large-scale studies provide an acute description of the current situation of childhood cancer survivors, little is known about their trajectories and the social processes shaping these trajectories.

Keywords: France; Childhood cancer; Survivorship; Education; Work; Trajectory; Life course; Social health inequalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.031

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