Pat says…
Since the beginning of my journey as a young adult cancer awareness advocate, I have travelled across Canada and throughout the world, encountering many young adult cancer patients and survivors who are telling their own stories. Keeping up with all the new material is an exciting challenge! I offer here a selection of resources with which I am personally familiar and which I recommend. All have one thing in common: the catalyst was/is a young adult voice.
ON FILM
- Chasing Rainbows: Young Adults Living with Cancer (Chasing Rainbows Production, 2006) www.chasingrainbowsproduction.com
- Wrong Way to Hope (Hands On Films, 2010)
- I Don’t Have Time for This! (Big Coat Productions, 2010)
- Sara’s Story (Infinity Films, 2000)
- “Missed”: Stories of Young Adults with Cancer (Alpheus Media, LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance, 2010)
IN PRINT
- Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s (Kairol Rosenthal, 2009)
- Cancer in Young Adults: Through Parents’ Eyes (Anne Grinyer, 2002)
- Planet Cancer: The Frequently Bizarre Yet Always Informative Experiences and Thoughts of Your Fellow Natives (Heidi Schulz Adams & Christopher Schulz, 2010)
- I’m Still Me: A Guide for Young People Living with Cancer (MacMillan Cancer Support, 2010)
- What About My Kids? A Guide for Parents Living with Breast Cancer (Linda J. Corsini, 2006)
ONLINE: Live Streaming Radio & TV, Resource Hubs & Networks
- The Stupid Cancer Show
- Pierre Live
- Young Adult Cancer Canada
- I’m Too Young For This
- JimmyteensTV (Teenage Cancer Trust, UK)
- massKickers
- CanTeen (Australia)
- LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance (US)
IN PERSON: Speakers & Support Groups
- Team Shan
- Alli’s Journey
- Imerman Angels
- Canadian Testicular Cancer Association
- First Descents
- Joan’s Fund
- Young Adult Cancer Network (Callanish Society, Vancouver BC)
- Break Cancer: www.urdb.org/breakcancer and www.breakcancer.co
- Hope & Cope (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal)
- Nanny Angel Network
- MyLifeline.org
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Sharsheret
- Camp Mak-A-Dream
- CaringVoices
