CURE's Parent Child Handbook:
The CURE Parent/Child Handbook is provided to parents of children who are being treated for cancer or blood-disorders at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong. This valuable resource has been recommended to families around the country and in Canada.
Since its first printing in 1977, the CURE Childhood Cancer Association Parent/Child Handbook has proven to be a valuable resource for families who have a child that has been diagnosed with cancer. Now in its 8th revision, the Handbook is designed to be a comprehensive resources for families. It contains medical as well as community and support information as well as a listing of helpful web sites. Approximately 75 to 100 handbooks are distributed each year.
CURE's Educational Advocate: Advances in childhood cancer treatment and therapy have enhanced the long-term survival and rate of children that have been diagnosed with with cancer. However, research confirms that various cancers and their therapies often adversely affect a child's educational development and functioning. LEAP, the Lifetime Educational Advocacy Program, addresses the educational needs of children who are treated for cancer. The Role of the Educational Advocate is to share information, communicate concerns and coordinate resources linking the home, school and hospital.
Voyages, A Map to Survivorhood
is CURE's Long-Term Survivors handbook and is provided to all survivors of childhood cancer who were treated at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong. This resource has been recommended to families around the country.
Voyages is intended to empower survivors with the knowledge of how to advocate for themselves, communicate with health care providers and understand the potential long-term late-effects that they may encounter due to their disease and/or treatments they underwent while under their doctors care. The handbook provides a place to compile and maintain each patients personalized treatment history and allows them to be aware of the possible future risks that they may face as a result of the treatment they received. This essential information is an extension of CURE's Parent/Child Handbook.
