Children with Cancer: A Guide for Parents

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If your child has cancer, this guide can help you every step of the way. This guide can be printed as a PDF booklet, or viewed as an ePub, or Kindle book, by simply clicking on one of the boxes below.

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This guide is divided into five sections:

Diagnosis

• Types of Childhood Cancers

• Diagnosing and Staging Cancer

• Talking with Your Child

Treatment

• Hospitals That Specialize in Treating Children with Cancer

• Clinical Trials

• Cancer Treatments and Side Effects

• Common Health Problems (infection, nutrition, stress and pain)

Support

• Finding Ways to Cope and Stay Strong

• Helping Your Child to Cope

• Helping Brother and Sisters

• Getting Organized

Life After

• Survivorship and Follow-up Care

• If Treatments Aren’t Working

• Looking Forward

Resources

• Practices That Help Children: Integrative Medicine Approaches

• Medical Tests and Procedures

Each section also has quotes from parents, related resources, and questions to help you get more in-depth and personalized information. This guide is designed to be used as a tool in consultation with your child’s health care team.