From Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

This creates new emphasis on the health of long-term survivors. The oncology team is responsible for educating patients about methods of modifiable risk reduction for the development of cancer. Smoking is the single most avoidable risk factor implicated in the development of cancer, yet survivors of childhood cancer have been found to smoke at the same rate as their peers. Nurses play a key role in developing patients ’ knowledge, beliefs and skills to avoid smoking behaviors. © 1994 by Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses. THE AMERICAN CANCER Society estimatesthere will be 8,000 new cases of cancer in children this year. This number pales in com-parison to the estimated 1,170,000 new adult cases in 1993. Despite this fact, childhood can-cer is the leading cause of death from disease in 1 through 14 year olds.1 In 1960, 1 in 1,000 children survived 1 yea