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Support
I Had Cancer is a social support network with the mission of helping people deal more effectively with life before, during and after cancer.
Immerman’s Angels carefully matches and individually pairs a person touched by cancer (a cancer fighter or survivor) with someone who has fought and survived the same type of cancer (a Mentor Angel).
Telling Your Kids You Have Cancer
How Should Children Be Told That a Parent Has Cancer? American Cancer Society
When Mommy or Daddy Have Cancer Everyday Health (podcast with Jen Singer)
Fertility and Cancer
Cancer and Fertility Brochures Livestrong
Relationships
And We Laughed (Parenting with Cancer) by Jen Singer at StandUp2Cancer
Do I Tell Anyone I Have Cancer? Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Gilda’s Club Gilda’s Club is a network of affiliate clubhouses where men, women and children living with cancer, as well as their friends and families, meet to learn how to live with cancer, whatever the outcome.
How to Help a Mom Who Has Cancer Circus of Cancer by Kelly Corrigan
Learning to Live After Loss (An Open Letter to Bereaved Spouses) StandUp2Cancer
Parents with Cancer: Millions of Patients Juggle Chemotherapy and Childrearing ABC News
Young Adults and Cancer
I’m Too Young for This (ages 15-40)
PlanetCancer.org Planet Cancer (ages 15-39)
Types of Cancer
Patients Against Lymphoma Facebook page
TealToes.org Raising Ovarian Cancer Awareness (symptoms)
Mesothelioma Center- provides the most current information about peritoneal mesothelioma, top doctors and treatment for patients diagnosed with the disease.
Mind and Body
Bad Patient an honest blog by a 32-year-old ovarian cancer survivor who admits “Chemo and surgeries saved my life, but they also broke my body — and part of my heart.”
CrazySexyCancer by Kris Carr
For Children and Teens
Camp Kesem: A camp offered free-of-charge to children who have been affected by a parent’s cancer.
The Children’s Treehouse Foundation (support groups by state for children whose parents have cancer)
Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer American Cancer Society
Psychosocial Services for Family Members American Cancer Society
When Your Parent Has Cancer (a Guide for Teens) National Cancer Institute
Books
For Adults:
Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber
The Council of Dads by Bruce Feiler
Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips by Kris Carr
Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20′s and 30′s by Kairol Rosenthal
Planet Cancer: The Frequently Bizarre Yet Always Informative Experiences and Thoughts of Your Fellow Natives by Heidi Schultz Adams and Christopher Schultz
When a Parent Has Cancer by Wendy Harpham
Memoirs:
Bald in the Land of Big Hair by Joni Rodgers
Cancer on $5 a Day by Robert Schimmel with Alan Eisenstock
The Middle Place and Lift by Kelly Corrigan
Bobblehead Dad (25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew) by Jim Higley
For Children:
Nowhere Hair by Sue Glader
Snowman on the Pitcher’s Mound by Jamie Reno
Apparel and More
Happy First Apparel by Debbie Vinyard
“Rise up. Take control. Find something to celebrate. Be Happy First. Then make it last.”
Babushkah (headscarves)
Check out Another Morning by Linda Blachman
Thank you!! This is great info and links! And so under addressed! Another great book four our children is by Julie Clark (the baby einstein founder and two time breast cancer survivor)- “You are the best medicine”
Good luck to you and thanks for getting this out there!!
Your site is fantastic. I’m so glad I have found it. I can’t wait to share it with the many, many young adult cancer patients who often ask me for parenting with cancer resources.
Resource Suggestion: Camp Kesem
Camp Kesem is a community of college campuses, on which student leaders develop and operate free week-long summer camps for children in families coping with cancer. Camp Kesem is currently on 38 campuses around the United States.
Position Statement: Camp Kesem is a college student-run summer camp for kids whose parents have (or have had) cancer. Camp Kesem transforms kids into campers who return home with an enhanced sense of confidence and a new set of powerfully bound friendships forged in a cancer-aware yet fun-focused environment.
Camps By State:
Arizona
-Arizona State University
California
-UC Berkley
-UC Davis
-UC San Diego
-UCLA
-Stanford
District of Columbia
-George Washington University
Florida
-Florida State University
-University of Florida
-University of Miami
Georgia
-Emory University
-University of Georiga
Illinois
-Augustana College
-Northwestern University
-University of Illinois
Indiana
-Indiana University
-Notre Dame
Maryland
-Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts
-MIT
Michigan
-Michigan State University
-University of Michigan
Minnesota
-University of Minnesota
New York
-Columbia University
North Carolina
-Duke University & UNC (combined)
Ohio
-Ohio State University
Oregon
-University of Oregon
Pennsylvania
-University of Pennsylvania
Tennessee
-Vanderbilt
Texas
-Texas A&M
-University of Texas- Austin
Utah
-Brigham Young University
-Southern Utah University
Virginia
-University of Richmond
-University of Virginia
Washington
-University of Washington- Seattle
Wisconsin
-University of Wisconsin- Madison
Thank You,
Joanna, Camp Kesem University of Michigan