Hematology-Oncology

Overviews on Helping Kids Cope

When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Guide for young people when a family member has cancer

Coping within the Family: Taking Time: Support for People with Cancer and the People Who Care About Them - NCI

What do I tell the children? - A guide for a parent with cancer - Cancer BACUP

Websites

Helping Kids Cope

• Kids Konnected
• 2beMe - website for teens with cancer
• SuperSibs! - website to support borthers and sisters of kids with cancer

Coping - Websites

• Cancer Care - Look in "Getting Help" for online and telephone support groups.
• International Psych-Oncology Society
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

General Websites

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Care
• National Cancer Institute
• People Living With Cancer - an ASCO website

• Kids Konnected - offers chat for kids whose parents have cancer
  
  
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

• Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)
  Mailing Lists -offers a wide variety of email discussion groups on many cancer types and topics
  OncoChat - offers live chat with cancer survivors, their families and friends
  
  
• American Cancer Society
  Cancer Survivors Network offers a variety of ways to communicate with others
  
  
• Cancer Care
  Telephone Support Groups offers groups that connect by using the telephone
  Online Support Group post messages on their moderated electronic bulletin board
  
  
• CarePages
  CarePages offers a way to keep family and friends informed during medical treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  
  
• People Living With Cancer (American Society of Clinical Oncology - ASCO)
  Community Center offers online chat sessions to talk, connect with others and find support

Revised 2005

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