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A resource for parents with cancer and the family and friends who love them, created by lymphoma sur

Parenting with Cancer is the place to go when you find out you or a loved one has cancer, but you're not sure how to tell the kids. Filled with practical advice from professionals and been there, done that stories from survivors, Parenting with Cancer will help you navigate the effects of a cancer diagnosis on parenthood. Created by Jen Singer, lymphoma survivor, parenting author, mom blogger and

mother of two, Parenting with Cancer is the web site she wished she'd found when she first searched, "Parenting with Cancer."

05/10/2016

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-camp-kesem-parents-with-cancer-balancing-0510-20160510-column.html

For the third straight summer, Dylan and Aiden Lynch are heading to the University of Illinois to attend Camp Kesem , where they'll kayak, swim, play and talk with other kids who've watched a parent battle cancer.

03/03/2016

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/this-medical-device-should-make-drawing-blood-a-lot-less-painful/vi-BBqgqX5?ocid=spartandhp

An infrared light makes veins more visible, meaning no more poking around for them.

02/19/2016

http://parentingwithcancer.com/2016/02/19/mere-mortals-cancer/

If you don't feel this way when you have freakin' cancer, when can you feel this way?"

02/16/2016

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-cancer-care-may-take-physical-and-emotional-toll-on-patients-1455592260

Jonas de Souza does research on “financial toxicity” for cancer patients at University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. de Souza says that cancer patients with few financial resources are at increased risk of physical harm caused by the financial burden of their treatments.

02/03/2016

http://khn.org/news/insurers-approval-of-genetic-testing-for-some-cancers-raises-questions/

The decision by Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania to pay for whole genome sequencing for some cancer patients adds to the debate about how to handle these expensive tests.

12/08/2015

http://parentingwithcancer.com/2015/12/08/f-it-list/

Now that you've had cancer, what's on your list?

When you've had cancer, you don't have to wait until retirement to make your "F-it List."

10/23/2015

http://parentingwithcancer.com/2015/10/23/survivor-what/

Sometimes I wish I’d had my cancer treatments in the dead of winter, on dreary, gray days covered in sleet and despair. Because when it’s gorgeous out there–a tableau of autumn’s oranges, reds, yellows, and greens against an incredibly blue sky–it’s hard not to get all, “Seasons in the Sun,” while y…

09/04/2015

"It would be impossible and frankly exhausting to live each day as if it were your last. But there’s something about writing a will that has small children as beneficiaries that makes the world stop."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/opinion/was-it-cancer-getting-the-diagnosis.html?smid=fb-share

I regularly do hot yoga and swim in a bay near my home in Sydney. What was this thing on my ovaries?

07/05/2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/his-wife-is-ill-hes-a-doctor-isnt-he-supposed-to-know-what-do-do/2015/06/29/06fc5c38-1463-11e5-9518-f9e0a8959f32_story.html

With no good answers, the couple endures an anxious period of wait-and-see.

07/03/2015

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/seattle-labs-vaccine-more-doubles-life-expectancy-/nmrFz/

Etubics Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, is moving forward after a major breakthrough in treating cancer patients.

06/13/2015

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/06/13/Researchers-discover-weakness-in-brain-tumors/4761434196786/

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered a weakness in brain tumors that can disrupt the spread of cancerous cells in the body.

06/05/2015

http://www.parenting.com/parenting-advice/mom/moms-back-parenting-after-cancer?fb_action_ids=10153912912778222&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B892726207455486%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.shares%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

Parenting.com asked Jen Singer to write about parenting with cancer for National Cancer Survivor's Day. Here's what happened....

When mom has cancer, the whole family has cancer. Life doesn't return to normal. The whole family learns to adjust to a "new normal."

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