Unfortunately at the moment there isn’t great deal of specific information or research about a cancer diagnosis during pregnancy. However there are some research projects being carried out and I will include these once published.
If you have found an internet site, book or article helpful then please let me know so that I can include it, thank you. There is a wide range of resources and information available, here are a few I found beneficial:
Internet based:
Breast Cancer Care.
The UK’s leading provider of breast cancer information and support.
Website: www.breastcancercare.org.uk
Telephone: 020 73842984
CancerBACKUP.
Europe’s leading cancer information service.
Website: www.cancerbackup.org.uk
Telephone: 0808 800 1234
Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Helping people live with cancer.
Website: www.macmillan.org.uk
Telephone: 0808 8082020
Bristol Cancer Help Centre
Bristol Cancer Help Centre is the UK's leading holistic cancer charity that has pioneered the Bristol Approach to cancer care, for people with cancer and those close to them. This Approach works hand-in-hand with medical treatment, providing a unique combination of physical, emotional and spiritual support using complementary therapies and self-help techniques, including practical advice on nutrition.
Website: www.bristolcancerhelp.org
Telephone: 0845 1232310
Pregnant With Cancer
The Pregnant with Cancer Network is an organization for women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy. Our mission is to connect women who are pregnant with cancer with other women who have been pregnant with the same type of cancer. These women are here to lend support, offer hope and share their experiences with one another through phone and e-mail conversation.
Website: www.pregnantwithcancer.org
Kids Konnected's
Kids Konnected's provide friendship, understanding, education, and support for the children who have a parent with cancer, or have lost a parent to cancer. When a parent gets cancer, the entire family is affected. Children facing the same fears and similar experiences can be helped by others in a similar situation.
Website: www.kidskonnected.org
Breastcancer.org
Breastcancer.org is dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete, and up-to-date information about breast cancer.Our mission is to help women and their loved ones make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.
Website: www.breastcancer.org
Dr Foster
This website is all you need for essential information on a range of health services in your area, including details about waiting lists and the doctors that might be treating you.
Website: www.drfoster.co.uk
Ovacome
UK wide support network providing information and support for everyone affected by ovarian cancer.
Website: www.ovacome.org.uk
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services.
Website: www.leukemia.org
Gynae C
Gynae C aims to support women with any form of gynaecological cancer, their partner, family and friends at an obvious crisis point in their lives.
Website: www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/gynaec
The Olive Tree
The Olive Tree is an independent cancer support group based at Crawley Hospital. We provide a drop-in centre, complementary therapies, counselling, information and support for cancer patients and their carers and families.
Website: www.olivetreecancersupport.org.uk
Books:
All Woman Life after breast cancer by Tania Farrell Yelland
In this inspiring book Tania Farrell Yelland, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, has gathered together thirty women to tell their personal story of what it meant to them to have been through the trauma of this diagnosis.
Living With Cancer by Dr Rosy Daniel
A positive, self-help approach for people with cancer.
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
The story of one man’s inspirational battle against the odds. |
