Children with Cancer

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Updated December 2005

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Title:   Why early childhood services should be SunSmart
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   Defines a sunsmart early childhood service and explains why early childhood services should be SunSmart. Early childhood services are in an excellent position to help reduce children's ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure and change long-term behaviour. Discusses duty of care and occupational health and safety legislation.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Services
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   The Cancer Council Victoria provides assistance to OSHC Services by providing sample sun protection policies for holiday/vacation care services and before and after school hours services.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Tuberous sclerosis is a genetic disorder that affects various parts of the body to varying degrees of severity. Its common characteristic is the formation of tuber-like growths in the brain. There is no cure.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   It has not been common for families and health practitioners to share information with children or adolescents about a family member's cancer. Interventions to try to help young people cope with cancer in the family include printed information materials...
Date:   May 2003
Title:   Leukaemia
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Leukaemia is a cancer of blood-forming cells. Leukaemia causes large numbers of white blood cells to be made. There are different types of leukaemia. Chemotherapy is the main treatment.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Skin cancer - children
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Too much ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can cause sunburn, skin damage, eye damage and skin cancer. Overexposure to the sun during childhood and adolescence is known to be a major cause of skin cancer.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Polycystic ovary syndrome
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an inherited disorder that affects girls and women of childbearing age. It causes many abnormal cysts (fluid filled 'balloon'-like structures) to develop in ovaries that are larger than usual.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Polycystic ovary syndrome
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an inherited disorder that affects girls and women of childbearing age. It causes many abnormal cysts (fluid filled 'balloon'-like structures) to develop in ovaries that are larger than usual.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Polycystic ovary syndrome
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an inherited disorder that affects girls and women of childbearing age. It causes many abnormal cysts (fluid filled 'balloon'-like structures) to develop in ovaries that are larger than usual.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Human papillomavirus (HPV) - immunisation
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection which usually does not cause any symptoms.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Human papillomavirus (HPV) - immunisation
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection which usually does not cause any symptoms.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Human papillomavirus (HPV) - immunisation
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection which usually does not cause any symptoms.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   How early childhood services can be SunSmart
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   How to develop a sun protection policy and become a SunSmart service in Victoria. Download SunSmart application forms and policy templates for early childhood services.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Freckles and moles
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   If you are very fair skinned or you have red hair then you are likely to have freckles or sun kisses' as they are sometimes called.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Cancer - when someone you love has cancer
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   When someone you love gets sick, life can feel strange, and when that sickness is cancer it can mean that life will be different for a while.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Cancer
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   When you, or someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, life can change in many ways.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Interventions for early stage Hodgkin's disease in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hodgkin's disease in children is mostly curable, but there is not enough evidence to show which treatments are best in the long term. Hodgkin's disease is a form of lymphoma (cancer in the lymph nodes). It is one of the most curable cancers in children,...
Date:   Dec 2001
Title:   Colony stimulating factors for prevention of myelosupressive therapy induced febrile neutropenia in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The authors evaluated the efficacy of adding colony-stimulating factors (CSF) after chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) to prevent febrile neutropenia, which is an important life-threatening side effect of treatment. There ...
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Supplementary Report 2: Adrenal gland cancer, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphona
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report provides medical validations for three conditions of concern regarding the health of Vietnam veterans and their children - adrenal gland cancer in veterans' children, the four main types of leukaemia in veterans and their children, and non-Hodgkins lymphona in veterans.
Date:   Nov 2001
Title:   How to enjoy the outdoors without damaging your skin
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Questions and answers about sun protection for children, teenagers and adults.
Date:   Nov 1996
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