This Battle Which I Must Fight: Cancer in Canada's Children and Teenagers

By S Huchcroft, A Clarke, Y Mao, M Desmeules, D Dryer, M Hodges, J-M Leclerc, M McBride, W Pelletier and R Yanofsky
Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1996; 110 pp; ISBN 0-662-24310-2; Health Canada Catalogue no H21-130/1996E; No charge
(Also available in French as Mon combat pour la vie : Le cancer chez les enfants et les adolescents au Canada; ISBN 0-662-81435-5; Catalogue n^o M21-130/1996F)

Background

• Published as part of the Canadian Childhood Cancer Surveillance and Control Program
• Represents a collaboration among the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control and Canadian cancer registries, pediatric oncology centres and cancer authorities

• Children with cancer, and their families and friends
• Health care professionals
• Researchers
• Librarians, teachers
• General public

• Childhood cancer issues such as diagnosis, causes, treatment and likely outcomes, different types of cancer, medical needs of the child, emotional and social impact of cancer on the child and family/friends
• Resources for information and support
• Incidence and prevalence data
• Colourful illustrations, stories and poems by children who have had cancer or by their families/friends

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