What About My Kids?: A Guide for Parents Living with Breast Cancer

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario Region is pleased to introduce the resource What About My Kids?: A Guide for Parents Living with Breast Cancer, now available online at www.cbcf.org/ontario/whataboutmykids

In 2002, the Foundation provided funding to the Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre to create What About My Kids?, a comprehensive resource addressing the broad range of issues and challenges parents with young children might encounter throughout the breast cancer journey. By providing relevant, accessible and practical information to address the complex needs of parents and children, What About My Kids? aims to help families cope with breast cancer together.

The resource is available in PDF format and people can either download the whole book, or choose only those chapters that respond to their specific information needs. The contents of the book include:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Diagnosis
• Chapter 2: Treatment
• Chapter 3: Financial Concerns
• Chapter 4: Survivorship
• Chapter 5: Heredity and Genetic Testing
• Chapter 6: Recurrence or Metastases
• Chapter 7: Legal Concerns
• Chapter 8: Advancing Illness and Dying
• Chapter 9: Death and Grieving
• English Resource List
• Liste de ressources en français
• Acknowledgements  

What About My Kids? was originally published in 2006 in book format. We are pleased to make this electronic version available to download to further meet the information needs of families affected by breast cancer. We hope that you will share information about this online resource with the people you serve.

Please note that we have a limited number of hard copies of the book available for parents living with breast cancer in Ontario who are unable to access the electronic version, and for libraries and patient resource centres in Ontario.

For more information about What About My Kids?, or to learn about other breast health and breast cancer resources offered by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Ontario, please contact resourcesON@cbcf.org.