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Netwd Health Directory
Childhood Cancers
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Audrey the Brave
Interactive site that will allow children to use tools in their fight against cancer. It includes a story of a little girl named Audrey, who is fighting cancer.
Austin's Miracle Fund
Organization created to raise funds for pediatric cancer patients and their families.
B.A.S.E. CAMP Children's Cancer Foundation
Provide a year-round base of support for children and families facing the challenge of living with AIDS, cancer, and other blood related illnesses.
Camp Quality
A year round support programme for children with cancer and their families. Provides activities, information and support internationally.
Childhood Leukemia - St Jude
Offers information on the history of leukemia, diagnosis, classification, signs and symptoms, treatment and medications.
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation
Non-profit organization founded by families, friends, and physicians to provide support and raise funds for research. Includes details of services, events, and articles.
The Children's Cancer Foundation
About the organization and information and resources on childhood cancer.
Children's Cancer Research Fund
Non-profit organization dedicated to providing national support for clinical research in pediatric cancer.
Children's Cancer Web
A non-profit site with comprehensive information on specific childhood cancers including an annotated directory of related links.
CureSearch
Provides information on childhood cancer for patients, their families, physicians, and health care advisors.
Kylie Ann Rosset Memorial Foundation
Wants to increase awareness of childhood cancer, raise funds to support pediatric cancer research, assist institutions offering care to pediatric cancer victims, and offer assistance to children and families coping with pediatric cancer.
Locks of Love
Provides hair prosthetics for children with long-term medical hair loss, free of charge or on a sliding scale. Includes information on donating human hair and fundraising.
M. D. Anderson Cancer CenterPediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation
Services, which are for childhood cancers of the blood, neuroblastoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Wilm's tumor, and non-cancerous blood disorders, including sickle cell anemia and immunodeficiency syndromes.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering: Pediatric Cancer Care
Information about childhood cancers and resources for patients and their families, as well as counsel and practical information.
National Childhood Cancer Foundation
Supports a network of childhood cancer treatment and research institutions throughout North America.
The National Children's Cancer Society
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with cancer by promoting children's health through financial assistance, advocacy, support services, and education.
NCI: Young People with Cancer, Handbook for Parents
Discusses the most common types of childhood cancer, treatments and side effects. Offers medical information and tips. Also available as PDF and in Spanish.
The Never-Ending Squirrel Tale
Offers practical support and encouragement to the parents of kids with cancer.
Parents Against Cancer
Offers information about childhood cancer and blood disorders and events related to patients and their families at Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center.
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
Committed to the improved care, quality of life and survival of children with malignant diseases. Includes information, research highlights, stories of children, events, and news.
United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group
A national organization treating children with cancer at 22 specialist centres around the UK. The web site includes a parent's guide and newsletter.
Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents
This guide addresses some of the most common questions about cancer in the young, combining medical information with practical suggestions. [PDF]
British Medical Journal: Second Primary Cancers after Childhood Cancer
Article discussing risk of secondary Cancer in individuals that had the disease in childhood. (April 6, 1996)
Did you know?
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