SIOP WORKING COMMITTEE ON PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

Recognizing the importance of psychosocial issues in the care and cure of the child with cancer, the board of the International Society of P ediatric Oncology (SIOP) in 1991 constituted a Working Committee on Ps ychosocial Issues in Pediatric Oncology, with Giuseppe Masera as chair and John Spinetta as co-chair. This committee met for the first time in Rhodes, Greece, in October 1991. The committee discussed various ps ychosocial issues and developed a document on Aims and Recommendations , summarizing the experiences of major centers. This document was appr oved by the SIOP board, which recommended diffusion of the document to the pediatric oncology community. (C) 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.