Voyages: A Map to Survivorhood

Voyages: 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.

"Its a real treasure because its personalized for the child. I was given the handbook - it has in there a two page summary of what all Joshua went through. To sit down and read that was amazing. As Joshua grows up and takes more responsibility for his own health care, he will have that Long -Term Survivor hand book that he can look back on and refer to and see what exactly was done to him.
Fran Kreider, Joshua's mother.