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More information from your American Cancer
Society
We have selected some related information that may also be
helpful to you. These materials may be ordered from our toll-free
number, 1-800-227-2345.
- It Helps to Have Friends When Mom or Dad Has Cancer (for
children of a parent with cancer)
Books from your American Cancer Society
The following books are available from the American Cancer
Society. Call us at 1-800-227-2345 to ask about costs or to place your
order.
National organizations and Web sites*
For adults with cancer:
National Cancer
Institute
Toll-free number: 1-800-422-6237 or 1-800-4-CANCER
Web site: www.cancer.gov
Planet Cancer
(teens and adults under 40 with cancer)
Web site: www.planetcancer.org
Cancer Hope
Network
Toll-free number 1-877-467-3638
Web site: www.cancerhopenetwork.org
CancerCare
Toll-free number: 1-800-813-4673
Web site: www.cancercare.org
Lance Armstrong
Foundation (LAF)
Toll-free number: 1-866-673-7205
Web site: www.livestrong.org
For children and teens who have a parent
with cancer:
Cancer Really
Sucks (an internet-only resource designed for teenagers by
teenagers who have loved ones facing cancer)
Web site: www.cancerreallysucks.org
Cancercare for
Kids (especially for children with a parent, sibling, or
other family member who has cancer)
Toll-free number: 1-800-813-4673
Web site: www.cancercareforkids.org
Kids Konnected (for
children and teenagers who have a parent with cancer and for those who
have lost a parent to cancer)
Toll-free number: 1-800-899-2866 (If you get voicemail, leave message
to receive a return call within 24 hours.)
Web site: www.kidskonnected.org
Kidscope
(has special online materials, a comic book for children about
chemotherapy and another item about breast cancer in the family)
Telephone: 404-892-1437 (voicemail is only checked once per week)
Web site: www.kidscope.org
National Cancer
Institute (to learn more about cancer, or to get special
information for teens; you can call to order a special booklet for
teens whose parents have cancer or read it online at: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/when-your-parent-has-cancer-guide-for-teens)
Toll-free number: 1-800-422-6237
Web site: www.cancer.gov
The Dougy Center
(information on grieving a loss, and referrals to programs across the
country and internationally that serve grieving children, teens, and
their families)
Telephone: 1-866-775-5683
Web site: www.dougy.org
Other publications*
Books for parents with cancer
Can I Still
Kiss You? Answering Your Children's Questions About Cancer
by Neil Russell. Published by HCI, 2001
Helping Your
Children Cope With Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents by
Peter Van Dernoot and Madelyn Case. Published by Hatherleigh Press,
2002
How to Help
Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness by Kathleen
McCue and Ron Bonn. Published by St. Martin's Press, 1996
Life and Loss:
A Guide to Help Grieving Children by Linda Goldman.
Published by Taylor and Francis Group, 2nd Edition, 1999
When a Parent
Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring for Your Children by Wendy
S. Harpham. Published by HarperCollins, Publishers, 2001
When Someone in
Your Family Has Cancer. National Cancer Institute,
1-800-4-CANCER or www.cancer.gov
Books for children and teens
Becky and the
Worry Cup, by Wendy Harpham. Published by HarperCollins,
1997. Best for ages 5-10. (Sold with When a Parent Has Cancer, by the
same author.)
Facing change:
Coming Together & Falling Apart in The Teen Years.
Compassion Press, 2004. Best for teens.
Fire in My
Heart: Ice in My Veins by Enid Samuel-Traisman 2003.
Published by Centering Corporation. Best for teens.
I know I Made
It Happen by Lynn Bennett Blackburn. 2003. Published by
Centering Corporation. Best for ages 6 to 12.
In Mommy's
Garden: A Book to Help Explain Cancer to Young Children by
Neyal J Ammary. Published by Canyon Beach Visual Communications, 2004.
Best for very young children. Also available in Spanish.
Lost and Found:
A Kid's Book for Living Through Loss by Marc Gellman and
Debbie Tilley. Published by HarperCollins, 1999. Best for ages 9 to 12.
My Mommy Has
Cancer by Carolyn S. Parkinson. Published by Solace
Publishers, 1991. Best for ages 4 to 7.
Sammy's Mommy
Has Cancer (Books to Help Children) by Sherry Kohlenberg,
Published by Gareth Stevens Publishers, 1994. Best for ages 4 to 7
The Paper Chain
by Claire Blake, Eliza Blanchard, and Kathy Parkinson. Published by
Health Press, 1998. Best for ages 4 to 9.
The Year My
Mother Was Bald by Ann Speltz and Kate Sternberg.
Published by American Psychological Association, 2002. Best for ages 9
to 12.
Tickles
Tabitha's Cancer - Tankerous Mommy by Amelia Frahm.
Published by Hutchinson,
Nutcracker Publishing Company, 2001. Best for ages 4 to 7.
Vanishing
Cookies: Doing OK When a Parent Has Cancer by Michelle B.
Goodman. Published by Michelle B. Goodman, 1991. Best for ages 9 to 12.
Videos for children and adults
We Can Cope:
Helping Parents Help Children When a Parent Has Cancer.
DVD has sections for teens, younger children, and parents, as well as a
guidebook on how to use it. Check your cancer treatment center library
or call Inflexxion at 1-800-848-3895, extension 276 (try extension 201
if no response from 276) to find out how to buy it. (Cost is $99.95 so
you may want to try to borrow it or buy a used copy.)
Kids Tell Kids
What it's Like When Their Mother or Father has Cancer.
Children talk about coping with their parents' cancer; best watched as
a family, to help kids and parents talk about cancer's effects in their
lives. Check your cancer center treatment library or buy DVD from
www.cancervive.org (cost: $40.00 new).
*Inclusion on
this list does not imply endorsement by the American Cancer Society.
No matter who you are, we can help. Contact us anytime, day or
night, for information and support. Call us at 1-800-227-2345 or
visit www.cancer.org.
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Last Medical Review: 05/28/2009
Last Revised: 05/28/2009
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