Provides answers to questions, information on how to help your family and friends with your illness, stories and chances to communicate with people who are affected by cancer.
Gives a different perspective to cancer info, fun, friendly and often comical. Provides useful tips on how to ease the stress of hospital visits and so on.
A site that provides information and support to anyone who has been affected by cancer. It enables family and friends to post questions and read stories of encouragement from those with similar experiences.
Stories and advice on what life is like when you're diagnosed with cancer and how to deal with it.
Provides information on types of cancer, symptoms, chat and daily news.
Pulling Together
CanTeen
Publisher: Reed: NZ, 2005
This is truly an inspiring book, in all senses of the word. Drawing upon the personal stories of many teenagers living with cancer, the book is also a very professional guide on all aspects of what might be called the cancer experience.
Constructed around three sections; understanding cancer, living with cancer and going beyond cancer, the book gives much practical advice to the patient, the sibling, the family and friends of how to work through the issues in each stage of the unique journeys that constitute teenage cancer. The title says it all: Pulling Together demonstrates that a support group like CanTeen is absolutely necessary to overcome the destructiveness of being lonely and instead gain the inspiration of being a community.
Pulling Together $20 – to purchase a copy please email CanTeen.
Cancer Happens: Coming of Age with Cancer
Rebecca Gilford
Publisher: Capital Books Inc.: USA, 2003
An honest, humorous and heartwarming book that explores the ordeal of an average person fighting an extraordinary struggle.
It’s Not about the Bike
Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York, 2000
A must read for all cancer survivors, but particularly relevant for young people living with cancer.
Teenage Cancer Journey
Kathleen A. Gill
Publisher: Oncology Nursing Press, Inc: USA, 1999
A helpful resource for young people living with cancer, as well as for family and friends who want to understand the teenage cancer experience.
Here and Now: Inspiring Stories of Cancer Survivors
Elena Dorfman and Heidi Adams
Publisher: Marlowe & Company: USA, 2001
In Here and Now offers photographic portraits and personal stories of 38 people - of all ages and from all walks of life - who have confronted cancer at some point in their lives.
Voices From The Edge
Michael Hayes Samuelson
Publisher: Longstreet Press, 2004
Voices from the Edge presents the wisdom of real people who have been diagnosed with and treated for cancer. They have been to the edge and returned. Some have come back to "normal" life, resolved to endure; to live out the full span of years that they once took for granted and have put several years between themselves and their diagnosis. Some have returned for only a short stay and face each day with the reality that the next, or the one after that, could be their last. All have returned with a new appetite for life.
Facing the Mirror with Cancer
Lori M. Ovitz
Publisher: Belle Press, 2004
A wonderful guidebook to help you deal with the physical side effects of cancer and it’s treatment by facing the mirror and enhancing your beauty, joy, happiness, and love - giving you the possiblitiy of living life to the fullest.
After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life
Wendy Schlessel Harpham
Publisher: Perennial, 1995
As anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer knows, surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatmenbt. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. This book helps survivors understand that they can’t go back to where they were before cancer but to move forward to a different “new normal”.
