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.
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.
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.
I Will Remember You
Laura Dower & Elena Lister
Publisher: HarperCollins: USA, 2001
An inspirational and accessible guide to coping with loss including dozens of hands-on creative exercises to help young people move through their pain and sorrow... into tomorrow.
The Grieving Teen
Helen Fitzgerald
Publisher: Fireside: USA, 2000
A unique and compassionate guide, not only about, but also for young people. The author identifies the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives them the tools they need to work through their pain and grief.
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.
When a Friend dies: a book for Teens about Grieving and Healing
M.E. Gootman
Publisher: Freespirit Publishing: USA, 1994
A quick read for grieving teens, their parents, friends and educators that reaches out to everyone with wisdom and compassion.
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.
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”.
