Keene Nancy - Childhood cancer: a parents guide to solid tumor cancers

Praise for previous editions of Childhood Cancer

This practical guide will empower parents to understand the disease better and participate more actively in the treatment process. Recommended for all consumer health collections.

Library Journal

Theres only one word to describe this bookterrific! It is definitive, comprehensive, and easy to readI recommend this guide to health professionals in pediatric oncology and all parents coping with a child with a solid tumor.

Denise Cain-Jones, MSW, ACSW
Update Newsletter, Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers

In my 15 years of experience as a pediatric oncology nurse, I have never come across a book as informative, easy-to-read, honest, and encouraging as Childhood Cancer [It] will truly empower those who read it to be better advocates for their children. I am recommending this book to all the pediatric oncology nurses, social workers, and family support personnel I know.

Kari Yarwood, ND, RN, CPON
Pediatrics Special Interest Group Newsletter, Oncology Nursing Society

Having a child diagnosed with cancer is an emotional time that often leaves a family feeling helpless and without control. Written by parents who have walked in the shadow of childhood cancer, this book provides detailed information, open-armed support, and the arsenal of tools needed to fight the battle that lies ahead.

Clarke Anderson, MD
Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Childhood Cancer is an exceptional resource for parents who are forced to navigate the complex world of childhood cancer. It is invaluable for all family members.

Eleanor Pask, RN, MScN, EdD, Executive Director
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation ~ Canada

This guide is written specifically for the families and caregivers of newly diagnosed childrenThe authors blend technical information in easy-to-understand language with advice from scores of parents and survivorsThe book is sensitively and thoughtfully rendered.

Todays Librarian

An excellent, supportive, and well-needed book.

Alan Rees
Consumer Health, A Majors Report

This book uniquely succeeds in meshing clinical knowledge of impeccable scientific quality with a pragmatic, been there done that sensibility of what is important to parents and caregivers. I recommend it most highly for those in need of helpful knowledge that will empower and help parents and caregivers to cope.

Mark Greenberg, MD
Professor of Paediatrics & Surgery, University of Toronto Chair, Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario

We are eternally grateful for the invaluable information and advice found in this book! As parents, a patient, and participants in this project, it is truly a gift of guidance, hope, and comfort. Not only would I recommend it for anyone in need, but it definitely should hold a proud place on the book shelf of every pediatric facility.

Cheryl, Michael, and Shoshana Tobias
Childhood cancer survivor and her parents

Patient empowerment is the theme, and this new book gives parents and caregivers the knowledge and skills to partner for the best medical care possible.

School Nurse News

I am a physician and the parent of a child with cancer. The toll that pediatric cancer takes on families is unquantified, but it includes physical and psychiatric illness in the child and in family members, divorce, and tremendous financial stress. Having a resource for coping with all the hardships is the first step toward putting the world back together, and Nancy Keenes books are the best solution I have found.

Catherine L. Woodman, MD, parent of a childhood cancer survivor
Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Iowa

Childhood Cancer: A Parents Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers, Third Edition

by Anne Spurgeon and Nancy Keene

Copyright 2016 Childhood Cancer Guides.

Published by Childhood Cancer Guides, P.O. Box 31937, Bellingham, WA 98228. Printed in the United States of America.

Printing History:
1997: First Edition
2002: Second Edition
2016: Third Edition

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This book is meant to educate and provide general information. It is not intended as, and should not be used as, medical advice for individual patients or as an alternative for professional medical care. In researching this book, the authors have gathered information from sources they consider to be reliable and current. However, neither the authors nor Childhood Cancer Guides guarantee or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or currency of the information provided in this book. In no event will the authors or Childhood Cancer Guides be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or other damages resulting from reliance on or use of the information provided in this book.

Certain pharmaceuticals, devices, treatments, other products and services, and companies have been referred to in this book by the trademarks, service marks, or trade names of their providers. Such references are made for the sole purpose of identifying the item or company in question and without intent to infringe upon the rights of the respective owners of the trademarks, service marks, or trade names referenced.

ISBN 978-1-9410-8990-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Spurgeon, Anne, author. | Keene, Nancy, author.

Title: Childhood cancer : a parents guide to solid tumor cancers / Anne Spurgeon, Nancy Keene.

Description: Third edition. | Bellingham, WA : Childhood Cancer Guides, 2016. | Series: Childhood cancer guides | Revision of: Childhood cancer / Honna Janes-Hodder & Nancy Keene. 2002. 2nd ed. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015045112 (print) | LCCN 2015044034 (ebook) | ISBN 9781941089910 (pdf) | ISBN 9781941089927 (mobi) | ISBN 9781941089934 (eBook) | ISBN 9781941089903 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Cancer in children--Popular works.

Classification: LCC RC281.C4 (print) | LCC RC281.C4 J36 2016 (ebook) | DDC 362.19892/9--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015045112