Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment

This book examines children and young people’s attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death.

• Clearly and compellingly written, Clemente relies on a new multi-layered method to identify six cancer communication strategies
• Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influ...