"The simple life experiences that every other human gets": Desire for normalcy among adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer.
Puja J UmaretiyaLauren FisherAndrea AltschulerLawrence H KushiChun R ChaoBrenda VegaGilda RodriguesIsabel JosephsKatharine E BrockSusan BuchananMallory CaspersonKaren M FascianoTatjana KolevskaJoshua R LakinAnna LefebvreCorey M SchwartzDov M ShalmanCatherine B WallLori S WienerKira O BonaJennifer W MackPublished in: Pediatric blood & cancer (2022)
AYAs with cancer experience multiple threats to normalcy during advanced cancer care. Clinicians can attend to normalcy and improve AYA quality of life by acknowledging these losses through ongoing discussions on how best to support domains of normalcy and by reinforcing AYA identities beyond a cancer diagnosis.