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• Links, Reading & Other Support

Links, Reading & Other Support

If you'd like to read more information about cancer then this page provides you with links to other sites and books that we recommend.

Recommended Links

• Teens living with cancer (http://www.teenslivingwithcancer.com)

  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.

• Planet cancer (http://www.planetcancer.org)

  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.

• Cancer survivor (http://www.cancersurvivor.com)

  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.

• Cancer Links (http://www.cancerlinks.com)

  Stories and advice on what life is like when you're diagnosed with cancer and how to deal with it.

• Cancer source (http://www.cancersource.com)

  Provides information on types of cancer, symptoms, chat and daily news.

• A House For Karen (http://www.ahouseforkaren.co.nz)

  Karen Van Dillen lost her fight with cancer in 2003 and in her memory "The Karen Cornelia Trust" was established, with the vision of supporting families with cancer by providing positive and unique experiences to enhance their appreciation and enjoyment of life.

  To enable other families the opportunity to have a special break away, the Trust embarked on the "A House for Karen" project. The goal was to build a holiday home by the beach as a haven for families suffering with cancer.

Recommended Books

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  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.

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  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.

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  Here and Now: Inspiring Stories of Cancer Survivors

  Elena Dorfman and Heidi Adams

  Publisher: Marlowe & Company: USA, 2001

  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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".