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Medical
CureSearch unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group, and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through our shared mission to cure childhood cancer. Research is the key to cure.
The Children’s Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines for Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancers were developed as a collaborative effort of the Nursing Discipline and the Late Effects Committee. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide recommendations for screening and management of late effects that may potentially arise as a result of therapeutic exposures used during treatment for pediatric malignancies. These guidelines represent a statement of consensus from a panel of experts in the late effects of pediatric cancer treatment. The recommendations are based on a thorough review of the literature as well as the collective clinical experience of the task force members, panel of experts, and multidisciplinary review panel (including nurses, physicians, behavioral specialists and patient/parent advocates). Implementation of these guidelines is intended to increase awareness of potential late effects and to standardize and enhance follow-up care provided to survivors of pediatric malignancies throughout the lifespan.
The Wilms & Other Renal Tumors Site provides up-to-date information of all areas concerning renal tumors from diagnosis to follow up care and current research.
National Center for Biotechnology Information - National Institutes of Health
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Searchable database of various types of medications (including many chemotherapy drugs).
Articles
Oct. 11, 2006 — When 8-year-old Lauren Mulholland started having back pain, her family thought she was having too much fun on the backyard trampoline. But during a summer vacation at Disney World, Lauren's mother found a lump on her daughter's left side. A few days later, on Lauren's 9th birthday, she was diagnosed with a Wilms' tumor, a childhood kidney cancer. After surgery to remove her kidney, two rounds of chemotherapy, and radiation, Lauren, 16, is cancer free, but far from healthy. Her treatments have left her with chronic health problems that put her remaining kidney in jeopardy. Lauren's struggle shows how the remarkable progress in the treatment of cancer in the last 30 years has not come without cost, and her story is a familiar one to other childhood cancer survivors. A landmark study of more than 14,000 patients in this week's New England Journal of Medicine finds that survivors of childhood cancer have frequent and serious health problems ...
Cancer Pages
"This is the place for parents, friends, and families of children who have or had childhood cancer. This site was created by and for people who know young people who are recovering from cancer. This is where we gather our resources, Web links, and references and store our information and tidbits of knowledge."
An amazing site and the Family Issues section has quite a bit of great ideas and information on support issues. You'll want to bookmark this site!
Devoted to education, support, and advocacy for families living with the effects of childhood cancer who are (or were) treated at the Hematology/Oncology Program at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children (HSC). We serve families who are in treatment, off treatment, or bereaved.
A non-profit,
open, searchable listing of first-hand accounts by cancer patients,
their caregivers and loved ones.
Other Resources
Specialize in helping people develop the ability to assess their
resiliency factors and develop their skills. These are essential
to the success of individuals, families, organizations and communities.
A comprehensive information guide about sleep disorders.
Descriptions, symptoms, causes, treatments of various sleep disorders like sleep apnea, insomnia, snoring, restless legs and narcolepsy.
An easy, effective and step-by-step way to quit smoking. Reviews and ranking of the top 5 quit smoking products. Information and resources on how to quit smoking now.
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