Childhood Cancer, Second Edition
A Parent's Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers
By Honna Janes-Hodder, Nancy Keene
July 2002
Pages: 560
ISBN 10: 0-596-50014-9 |
ISBN 13: 9780596500146
This second edition features a wealth of resources for parents of children with solid tumor cancers, plus many stories of "veteran" parents. Parents will encounter medical facts simply explained, practical advice to ease their daily lives, and tools to be strong advocates for their child. Includes a personal treatment summary and long-term follow-up guide for your child to keep as a permanent record.
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Woven among the medical details and the practical advice are the voices of parents and children who have lived with cancer and its treatments. As many parents have already found, advice from "veteran" parents can be a lifeline. Obtaining a basic understanding of topics such as medical terminology, how drugs work, common side effects of chemotherapy, and how to work more effectively with medical personnel can only improve the quality of life for the whole family suffering along with their child. Having parents describe their own emotional ups and downs, how they coped, and how they molded their family life around hospitalizations can be a tremendous comfort. Just knowing that there are other kids on chemotherapy who refuse to eat anything but tacos or who have frequent rages can make one feel less alone.
Parents who read this book will encounter medical facts simply explained, advice to ease their daily lives, and tools to be strong advocates for their child. It also contains a personal treatment summary and long-term follow-up guide for your child to keep as a permanent record.
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Second Edition: July 2002
ISBN: 0-596-50014-9
Pages: 560
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"Childhood Cancer offers invaluable information and hope to families whose journey has just begun. A "must read" for parents of children with solid tumors."
--Ruth Hoffman, Executive Director Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation
"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
"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. Janes-Hodder and Keene, both mothers of children who have had cancer, have written a book that is immensely valuable for parents of all newly diagnosed children with cancer. ...Childhood Cancer is a book that parents will refer to again and again over the course of their child's illness. 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."
--Pediatrics Special Interest Group Newsletter Oncology Nursing Society
"We are eagerly awaiting the release of Childhood Cancer: A Parent's Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers by Nancy Keene and Honna Janes-Hodder. Parents of children with solid tumors need an authoritative, comprehensive and accurate reference to guide them as they help their sons and daughters fight cancer. Keene's Childhood Leukemia is already a standard reference for parents of children with leukemia, and the new volume will become just as indispensable to parents of children with other cancers. At Seattle Candlelighters, we're working to make this book available to newly diagnosed families throughout Western Washington. It's crucial that parents have access to sources of complete information as they and their children enter the often terrifying world of pediatric oncology."
--Kathleen Barry J.D., Executive Vice President Seattle Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation (SCCCF)
"We are eternally grateful for the invaluable information and advice found in this book! For us, a source of personal knowledge of osteosarcoma is very limited to the general public. 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 any one in need, but it definitely should hold a proud place on the book shelf of every pediatric facility."
-- Cheryl, Michael and Shoshana Tobias [one of hundreds of personal thank-you letters received by the authors]
"An excellent, supportive, and well-needed book."
--Alan Rees, Alan Rees on Consumer Health, A Majors Report
"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
Childhood Cancer Foundation ~ Candlelighters Canada
"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, M.D., Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases Childrens Hospital Los Angeles University of Southern California School of Medicine
"Parents and the extended family and friends pitchforked into the huge abyss that a diagnosis of childhood cancer creates, desperately need the comfort of up-to-date information that is reliable and comprehensive, and that takes into account the whole child and family. 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 high level helpful knowledge that will empower and help parents and caregivers to cope."
--Mark Greenberg, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto
"I am a physician and the parent of a child with cancer. The toll that pediatric cancer takes on families is unquantified, but includes physical and psychiatric illness in the child and in family members, divorce, and tramendous financial stress. Having a resource for coping with all the hardships is the first step toward putting the world back together, and Nancy Keene's books are the best solution I have found."
--Catherine L. Woodman, MD and parent University of Iowa, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
