“…The two do not just affect the psychosocial wellbeing of the children, but also affect the mental and physical well-being of the children. For instance, loneliness has been found to associate with frequent visits to a doctor, school drop-out, depression, suicidal ideation, low-selfesteem, social anxiety, eating disorder, and sleeping problems (Ergen and Çikrikci, 2018;Gerst-Emerson and Jayawardhana, 2015;Huang et al, 2017;Maes et al, 2017), all to some extent found in our study. Adolescents with cancer mainly experienced reduced social interaction due to treatment and social isolation resulting from the stigma they experienced which in turn induced loneliness which also triggered some biophysical issues mentioned above.…”