This study highlights the range in parental comfort regarding permitting in-person schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatric oncologists should continue to address parental concerns around in-person school during times of high transmission of COVID-19 and potentially other communicable diseases ...
Only rarely do parents have an opportunity to express a meaningful preference about which PICU should provide care for their child, given the relative scarcity of units, the relationship of any particular unit to other persons or facilities that parents have chosen (e.g., surgeon, oncologist, ...
Knowledge Parents reported lower confidence in teachers’ knowledge about cancer and its impacts on schooling. Many parents described that their child’s teachers lacked an understanding of long-term cancer treatment effects and how treatment may influence school performance [11,19,25,32,48,18]. Tea...