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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
This journal is an activity book developed by an Art Therapist with the Patient and Family Counselling Program and an Oncology Nursing Practice Leader with the BC Cancer Agency. It is designed for older children, ages 10 and up, to help them learn creative ways of coping when a family member is liv…
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This activity book was written by a former Art Therapist with the Patient and Family Counselling Program and an Oncology Nursing Practice Leader with the BC Cancer Agency. It is designed for children, ages 6 to 12, to help them learn, creative ways of coping when a family member is living with can…
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This book is for the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, or other support persons, who play a key role in helping children and teens who have a family member living with cancer.
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This book includes essential information for families and friends of children diagnosed with cancer, including how to: understand the diagnosis, get excellent treatment, cope with side effects, find emotional support and identifying helpful resources. Woven through the text are true stories from mo…
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Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around…
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A young girl uses color to express her full range of emotions as she undergoes cancer treatment.
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Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain the science of cancer and how a loved one's diagnosis and treatment affects a kid's day-to-day life.What Happens When My Sibling Has Cancer uses bright and fun illustrations to show how cells can turn into cancer, and helps reduce confusion ab…
| copy 3 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 | ||
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Approximately 4,500 children and teens are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States and Canada each year. The illness and its treatment can have a devastating effect on family, friends, classmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition of Childhood Leukemia contains the informati…
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In this book we meet a child who has cancer named Jane. Jane explains what cancer is and some of the therapies used to combat cancer while her own body exhibits some of the symptoms of cancer therapy. My Cancer was created to help young children entering cancer therapy understand and explain what i…
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, and treatments for childhood cancer.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Jon loves his life in the North. But when he feels a pain that won't go away, he must go to a children's hospital in the south to find out what is wrong. A doctor there tells Jon he has cancer and will have to stay at the hospital for a while. Suddenly Jon's life is upside down! But with a handful …
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
My Port is a short book about a child who has an implantable venous access port. It is useful for helping children become familiar with cancer therapy or any serious illness requiring port access.
My Scans is a simple book for children designed in collaboration with parents of oncology children to help with anxiety associated with scans. This book includes short descriptions of experiences associated with Ultrasounds, PET scans, CT scans and MRI scans.
A demonstration of various pain management techniques. Children and their parents learn various coping methods for frightening or painful treatment procedures.
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This book includes tools for children to cope with stress in various areas of their lives:; On the playground with the school bully; At home with siblings; In the classroom with difficult tasks; After school with peer pressures; Easily adaptable to multiple scenarios, scripts and activities lead na…
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What Happens When a Kid Has Cancer is a book written with purpose of relieving the anxiety and confusion that comes from a child's cancer diagnosis and treatment.; What Happens When a Kid Has Cancer covers the main points of pediatric cancer, what it is and what the experience of treatment is like,…
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Nourishing recipes for cancer patients, who often experience culinary ups and downs because of sudden dietary restrictions and poor appetite due to damaged taste buds from harsh treatments. Revised and updated with 10 new recipes, this second edition provides caretakers with a tangible way to nurtu…
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My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents, allowing the sufferer to return to normal eating patterns, and their families to return to normal family life.; In this book, ten families share their experiences of l…
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Planet Cancer is an honest, down-to-earth guide to living in this new world, from Diagnosis to Post-Treatment. Each chapter is informed by Planet Cancer’s voice—authoritative, funny, friendly, no-nonsense. Experts address issues from all sides around bedrock “What It’s Really Like” essays: deeply p…
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A practical cookbook containing over 100 recipes to help people living with cancer to manage eating difficulties (loss of appetitie, nausea, taste changes, swallowing difficulties, diarrhea) during cancer treatment. The final chapter contains information on healthy eating after treatment.
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