Focused guide collection
Childhood, Adolescent, and Young-Adult Cancer
These resources support—not replace—care from pediatric and adolescent cancer specialists. They include practical questions for parents, young people, siblings, school teams, and survivorship clinicians.
Guides in this collection
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Childhood Cancer
Hepatoblastoma: A Parent Guide
Practical, source-based guidance on hepatoblastoma a parent guide, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Germ-Cell Tumors
Practical, source-based guidance on childhood germ-cell tumors, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
9 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Adolescents Approaching Medical Independence
Practical, source-based guidance on adolescents approaching medical independence, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer Warning Signs Parents Should Know
Childhood cancer is rare, but some signs deserve a check: lasting lumps, easy bruising, morning headaches with vomiting, or a white glow in a child's eye.
7 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Infection Precautions for Children During Cancer Treatment
Questions families can ask about fever plans, school, visitors, handwashing, masks, siblings, and when to call during childhood cancer treatment.
8 min read · Beginner
Caregivers
Bereaved Siblings After a Cancer Death
Sibling grief after a cancer death: what's in the usual range, the guilt and fear specific to losing a sibling, how children grieve, and when to get help.
8 min read · Beginner
Living With Cancer
Cancer, School, and Career as a Young Adult
Cancer can interrupt school and early career at a crucial time. Here are practical options for young adults. Based on the National Cancer Institute.
7 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer Late Effects: Questions for Follow-Up
Questions families can ask about late effects after childhood cancer, including growth, learning, fertility, heart health, and survivorship plans.
7 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer Scans and Scanxiety
How families can prepare for childhood cancer scans, waiting, sedation questions, and scanxiety before results.
6 min read · Beginner
Questions to Ask
Childhood Kidney Cancer Treatment Questions
Questions to ask about Wilms tumor and other childhood kidney cancers, covering histology, stage, surgery, chemotherapy, genetics and late effects.
8 min read · Beginner
Questions to Ask
Childhood Liver Cancer Treatment Questions
Practical, source-based guidance on childhood liver cancer treatment questions, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
9 min read · Beginner
Living With Cancer
Explaining cancer to a school-age child
How to explain cancer to a child about six to twelve, using honest words, short talks, and the reassurances NCI says every child needs.
4 min read · Beginner
Cancer Types
Eye Cancer: A Plain-Language Overview
Eye cancers are uncommon and include melanoma and childhood retinoblastoma. Learn what to ask after an eye tumor is found.
7 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Feeding and Appetite Changes in Childhood Cancer
A plain-language guide for parents facing appetite changes, food battles, nausea, mouth sores, feeding tubes, and dietitian questions.
8 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Fertility Questions for Childhood Cancer Survivors
Questions families and survivors can ask about fertility risk, puberty, hormones, pregnancy, and survivorship follow-up after childhood cancer.
6 min read · Beginner
Caregivers
Grief After Losing a Parent, Spouse, Child, or Sibling
Planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support for grief after losing a parent, spouse, child, or sibling to cancer.
6 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Learning and School After Childhood Cancer
Practical, source-based guidance on learning and school after childhood cancer, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Prevention & Risk
Living near power lines: research on magnetic fields
NCI summarizes decades of studies on low-frequency magnetic fields. Childhood leukemia findings are inconsistent, and expert bodies found no consistent proof.
5 min read · Beginner
Life After Treatment
Moving From Pediatric to Adult Survivorship Care
Practical, source-based guidance on moving from pediatric to adult survivorship care, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Caregivers
Parents Facing Uncertain Childhood Cancer Decisions
Guidance on parents facing uncertain childhood cancer decisions: planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Pediatric CNS Tumor Types Explained
Practical, source-based guidance on pediatric cns tumor types explained, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
8 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Questions to Ask About Childhood Cancer Treatment
A parent-friendly question list for childhood cancer treatment decisions, side effects, hospital logistics, school, fertility, trials, and late effects.
7 min read · Beginner
Caregivers
Siblings During Long Childhood Cancer Treatment
Practical, source-based guidance on siblings during long childhood cancer treatment, including planning steps, questions, safety limits, and care-team support.
4 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Transition to Adult Follow-Up After Childhood Cancer
How childhood cancer survivors can prepare for adult follow-up, treatment summaries, late effects, insurance, fertility, and primary care handoffs.
6 min read · Beginner
Living With Cancer
Why a child may act out or regress while a parent has cancer
Behavior changes, regression and school trouble are documented reactions when a parent has cancer. What NCI describes and what tends to steady a child.
4 min read · Beginner
Cancer on Screen
A Christmas Tale (2008) and the Marrow Donor Search
A Christmas Tale puts a family marrow search at the center of Christmas. What the film establishes, why siblings are typed first, and who gets to say no.
6 min read · Beginner
Treatments
Adolescent & Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Care
Addressing fertility, education, careers, and unique medical needs in young adult oncology.
5 min read · Beginner
Cancer on Screen
Alexa & Katie (2018): Leukemia in High School
Alexa & Katie (2018) on screen: the plot, what it portrays accurately, where drama takes over, and the real early signs and screening behind the story.
7 min read · Beginner
Who Does What: Agencies & Organizations
American Childhood Cancer Organization: history and founding
The American Childhood Cancer Organization began in 1970 as Candlelighters, started by parents of children with leukemia. Its history, programs, and limits.
5 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Attending School During Childhood Cancer Treatment
IEP under IDEA versus a 504 plan, hospital and homebound instruction, and a school nurse re-entry checklist for a child in cancer treatment.
7 min read · Beginner
Treatments
AYA Fertility Preservation Before Cancer Treatment
A comprehensive guide for adolescents and young adults (AYA) navigating cancer diagnosis, fertility preservation, career/school decisions, and relationships.
6 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Bone Cancer in Children: Osteosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma
A plain-language explanation of the two main bone cancers in children and teens — osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma — and how they are treated.
5 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors in Children
A plain-language explanation of brain and central nervous system tumors in children — the second most common childhood cancer group
4 min read · Beginner
Cancer on Screen
C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993): A Cancer Returns
Derek Yee's Hong Kong classic follows a childhood cancer that returns in adulthood. What the film shows, and NCI on follow-up for childhood survivors.
6 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer Survivorship and Follow-Up Care
A plain-language explanation of follow-up care for childhood cancer survivors, including survivorship care plans and specialized clinics.
5 min read · Beginner
Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer: An Overview for Families
A plain-language starting point for families facing a child's cancer diagnosis.
3 min read · Beginner