Cancer in kids /
No one ever thinks it can happen to them: your child has been diagnosed with cancer! It's always a terrifying diagnosis - and even more so when it's a child. What do you do? The good news is that cure rates have improved dramatically. Thirty years ago, a child diagnosed with cancer had onl...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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Millis, MA :
Aquarius Health Care Media,
2006.
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| Series: | Health and society in video
Keeping kids healthy |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | No one ever thinks it can happen to them: your child has been diagnosed with cancer! It's always a terrifying diagnosis - and even more so when it's a child. What do you do? The good news is that cure rates have improved dramatically. Thirty years ago, a child diagnosed with cancer had only a 10 percent chance of survival. Today, that number is up to almost 80 percent. But even the best statistics don't mean much to a family hearing this diagnosis for the first time. Meet a 10-year-old boy who is still undergoing treatment for leukemia; a thirteen-year-old girl who underwent life-altering surgery to get rid of her bone cancer and the parents who have held their kids' lives together emotionally as the doctors concentrate on their physical repair. Join us and share their heart-wrenching but life-affirming experiences - to better help us all comprehend this disease, and to learn the things each of us can do to help. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 13, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (27 min.). |