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Support for Partners and Carers
Websites
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| Helping Parents and Partners |
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| For
partners - talking to your spouse A site set up by
Gillette to help people dealing with partners, parents
or friends with cancer. This page is for partners |
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For
Children- A site set up by Gillette to help
people dealing with partners, parents or friends with
cancer. This page is for kids |
| Being
a carer |
| Being
a carer- some Australian
links |
| A
Guide for Daughters Whose Mothers have Advanced Breast
Cancer |
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For
families and Children- KIDSCOPE is an organization
which has been formed to help families and children better
understand the effects of cancer and chemotherapy in a
parent |
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Breast cancer: common reactions of children and how to
help |
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Cancer
Supportive Care.com. Based on the book, Cancer Supportive
Care by Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD & Isadora R. Rosenbaum,
MA, Somerville House Publishing, Toronto, 1998. |
| Communicating
with children is vital when Mom has breast cancer:
Health Beat, University of Washington, 1995. |
| Enhancing
sexuality and self-esteem after a breast cancer diagnosis:
from Oncolink. |
| KIDSCOPE:
educational material for children and families where a
parent has cancer. |
| Listen
with your heart: talking with the cancer patient.
American Cancer Society
Meeting sexuality needs of women with breast cancer:
from Oncolink |
Taking
time: support for people with cancer and the people who
care about them. National Cancer Institute, 1990.
Talking to children: suggestions from CancerHelp UK. |
Books
| Title |
Author |
ISBN (or where to access) |
Topics |
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Anna Maslin,
Trevor Powles |
0192629670 |
Addresses
issues relating to shared decision making and in particular
those areas where a choice of treatment option involves
some degree of risk/benefit analysis. |
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Carrie Lethborg
and Angela Kirsner |
1875271309 |
A book about
a child's reaction to her mother's cancer diagnosis |
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Laurie Tarkan |
Taylor Publishing |
What happens
when a woman finds out her mother has breast cancer |
| You can use the links in this section
to look at these or to get copies sent to you. |
Guidelines and recommendations
- Psychosocial clinical practice guidelines: providing
information, support and counselling for women with breast
cancer
Reports, research and data reviews
- An examination of procedures reimbursed under Medicare
for breast disease and breast cancer in Australia, 1985
- 1996
- Breast reconstruction: a review of research and patient
and professional resources
- Cost of diagnostic investigations for women presenting
with breast symptoms, The
- Experience of diagnosis; information and support needs
of women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ
- Encouraging research into lymphoedema: a report on the
summit held on 25 and 26 February 2000
- Encouraging research into lymphoedema: a register of lymphoedema
research
- Lymphoedema: prevalence, risk factors and management:
a review of research
- Lymphoedema prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Literature
search
- Needs of children of mothers with advanced breast cancer
- Out-of-pocket expenses incurred by women for diagnosis
and treatment of breast cancer in Australia
- Psychosocial impact of breast cancer: a summary of the
literature 1986-1996
- Psychosocial support for breast cancer patients: a review
of Interventions by specialist providers. A summary of the
literature 1976-1996
- Psychosocial support for breast cancer patients provided
by members of the treatment team. A summary of the literature
1976-1996
- Specialist breast nurses: an evidence-based model for
Australian practice
- Strengthening support for women with breast cancer: a
background paper
- Supplementary report on the effects of treatment on quality
of life
- Talking about prognosis with women who have early breast
cancer: what they prefer to know and guidelines to help
explain in effectively
- WEBSITE ONLY A consumer's guide to early breast cancer
- WEBSITE ONLY Breast reconstruction: a review of the research
and patient and professional resources
- WEBSITE ONLY Satisfaction with breast cancer care: a summary
of the literature 1984-1994
- WEBSITE ONLY Strengthening support for women with breast
cancer: principles, outcomes and models paper
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