Teenagers with Cancer

[natty23]

I'm in the process of writing a leaflet for teenagers with cancer, trying to highlight issues specific to them and their life, and am looking for sources. anybody any ideas?

Also any one here who has cancer or had cancer or knows of a teen with cancer, could you let me know what information you feel is lacking in current leaflets? or any other interesting tips for the leaflet.

This isn't a school project or anything, its a real leaflet that i'm hoping to publish and put in my local hospital, as there doesn't seem to be enough help out there for teens so any ideas would be really appreciated. thanks.

[laurence2]

Hello natty,

I will ask my wife if she has any imformation on your said question when she gets in from work tonight.

Shes a nurse on a ward that predominantly deals with children and teenagers who have or have had cancer.

Extremely sad.

[Octavius]

You might find some useful stuff here:

https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/main/

[raysparx1]

Might be an idea to contact a childrens Hospice we have two near us, Hope House, in Oswestry and Ty Gobaith in
Ty'n-Y-Groes , North Wales, either of them would help you, great idea, good luck, Ray

[raysparx1]

Have a look at Hope House site.
http://www.hopehouse.org.uk/

[China Doll]

Have you been in touch with your treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc...) department regarding how the treatments may effect them and the impact that it will have on their lives in the short term? Also side effects etc... That might be of interest too.

[sunflower71]

One of my cyber friends might be able to help you on this :

http://www.myspace.com/sazzelli

she is lovely and I am sure she can help you.

[bednobs]

hi, have you had a look round as to what is already available, to save yourself re-inventing the wheel?

[natty23]

thanks for suggestions so far, and yes i have had a scout round the internet and have contacted local hospital and places like cancer bacup for current leaflets- i was quite shocked that there isn't a lot out there.

I was wanting to talk about treatment and side effects etc along with relationships, body image and more 'real issues' that they could face and how to deal with them.

the difficulty is that everything i put in it has to be backed up by research so any more links you can think of would be soooo helpful.

[China Doll]

http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Radi otherapy/Generalinformation/Children

http://www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/dicti onary/E

http://www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/treat ments/radiotherapy/howisitgiven

http://www.sor.org/public/contact_us.htm

Hope some of this might help. It's all to do with Radiotherapy. I don't know much about other Cancer treatments. Alternatively contact some hospitals that have specialist cancer centres. They generally have people there who would be happy to talk to you and as Bednobs says, you may not need to invent the wheel. Good luck to you.

[China Doll]

Hope you don't mind Natty but I've popped a link to your question in Science as I think there'd be a few in there who would be excellent at commenting on treatments and side effects etc... and I think that they may possibly able to give some sound tips on where to search.

That's about all I can think of to help so hope it does in a little way.

Once again, good luck.

[sunflower71]

Natty, my friend on myspace had cancer as a teenage (she is fine now) and is an amazing artist some of her artwork is about how she was feeling etc. which she might let you use???

Anyway good for you for doing this.

[natty23]

thanks for all your comments once again.
sunflower - is this the same friend who's link you oput on earlier?

[sunflower71]

yes natty - if you do make contact she will know me as stuntgirl