Childhood Cancer: Build Your Team and Fight

Childhood Cancer: Build Your Team and Fight is a tool for newly diagnosed childhood cancer patient families and friends. This book offers dozens of resources and evidence-based information to help understand the process of fighting childhood cancer. Navigating a complicated landscape of U.S. healthcare adds pressure to families fighting childhood cancer. Descriptions to help with understanding imaging, treatment roadmaps and non-profit partners are intended to ease the stress and confusion of a new diagnosis. This book is written by a childhood cancer survivor's Mom who works in healthcare. Readers will meet qualified experts for advice throughout the book. It offers a combination of approachable descriptions of the healthcare environment and personal memoir stories of her daughter's cancer fight. This book would be most useful for a newly diagnosed family so they can have a big picture view of their upcoming challenges. A hopeful perspective that doesn't shy away from taboos, this book digs into important parts of diagnosis, even how to cope with losing hair and going to chemotherapy appointments. A triage for the first few weeks of diagnosis, this book educates and sends families on their way towards working treatment plans.