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Understand who is most commonly diagnosed with kidney cancer and get support for survivorship.

February is National Cancer Prevention Month. Learn about ways to reduce your risk of recurrence as a survivor.

Faces of Courage provides different programs for teens and adults diagnosed with cancer. The different programs include day-long adventures and overnight camps. There are specific camps for women of color and teenagers. Each camp has different eligibility requirements that may be viewed in the respective camp description.

Insure Kids Now offers information on how children and teens qualify for low-cost health and dental coverage through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Provides hairpieces to financially disadvantage children under the age of 21 who are experiencing long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. To apply for a hairpiece: click of the “Forms” tab, then click on the “Hairpiece Application”.

Comprehensive information for people with cancer, families, and caregivers, from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the voice of the world’s oncology professionals.

Some cancer patients require specialized health care assistance. This might happen during or after cancer treatment. Home health care services can provide certain types of temporary or ongoing medical care at home. The goal is to make it possible to remain safe and comfortable at home while having a good quality of life.

Some cancers and treatments can result in cognitive changes that affect thinking, learning, processing or remembering information. These changes can affect many aspects of life such as the ability to work or even to do everyday tasks. Find out whether you have an increased risk of cognitive changes.

For those living with cancer, changes that affect roles and relationships in your daily life may be especially challenging. Cancer treatment can cause a change in energy level. Side effects could affect the way you feel about yourself. What is most important to you might change. You may have less time and energy.

The emotional toll can be particularly challenging for those whose future fertility is threatened by the very medications and procedures that were meant to save their lives. Sadness, loss, anger, regret, fear and uncertainty are just some of the feelings people face when dealing with cancer and infertility. Most people have at one time imagined what their future family might look like. A cancer diagnosis can put your life and that potential family at risk.

Lindy lost her son to liver cancer. She talks about family counseling, communicating with her husband, and helping her son with palliative care.

Mark talks about being a caregiver to his son with cancer, Jack’s experiences with fecal incontinence, and their relationships with other family members.

Luz is the caregiver of Martin, a leukemia survivor. She discusses enrolling Martin in a clinical trial, managing his compromised immune system, and hope.

Eric’s son is a brain cancer survivor. Eric talks about how the aftereffects of surgery affected his son, financial issues, and communicating with his wife.

James lost his daughter to neuroblastoma. He talks about enrolling his daughter in clinical trials and getting involved in the cancer community.

Barbara and Steven are parents of a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor. They discuss caregiver concerns, aftereffects of treatment, and family relationships.

Lymphoma survivor Robin and his mom talk about going back to school after treatment, meeting other young cancer survivors, and what survivorship means to him.

Sandy is the mother and caregiver of Amer, an acute lymphocytic leukemia survivor. They discuss dealing with the aftereffects of treatment, a compromised immune system, and family financial issues.