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  • Upcoming Webinar - Childhood Cancer Survivors: Beyond Fear and Stigma
    Announcing our next webinar on dealing with survivorship issues of childhood cancer and what enables them to integrate back into schools, neighbourhoods, work places and society.  From the moment a child is diagnosed with cancer, both the child and the family enter an emotional roller coaster. Children are stunned by the sudden move from health to illness and the unwelcome drama of tests and procedures. Fear, anxiety, self guilt, parental neglect, anger, in fact, are the predominant…
  • Children going through cancer treatment, wearing face mask and bald head sitting in red bean bags, playing together
    "They Are Children First And Cancer Patients Second"
    Mrunal Marathe, counsellor at St Jude India Childcare shares the challenges, fears and insecurities faced by children and teenagers affected by cancer and the impact on their families. What are the growing concerns of parents who have children with cancer? The first and largest problem is that most people aren’t aware that cancer is a disease that can affect children. Cancer is perceived as something adults get. After a diagnosis, parents often blame themselves and believe that is was something…
  • An image of a young person with buzz hair and the title Living Better After Cancer - Adapting to a new Reality with cancer survivors Gauri and Pranay and Oncopsychologist Aneri Shah
    Webinar: Living Better After Cancer - For Young Adults Dealing with Cancer
    Living Better After Cancer - Adapting to a new Reality. This webinar, part of our ‘Living Better’ series on lived experiences of cancer survivorship sessions looks at the psycho-social aspects of young adults who have to deal with cancer. This session covers how cancer re-defines identity, how it affects relationships and friendships, equations at work and perspectives in life. Listen to an insightful and interesting conversation with Psycho Oncologist Aneri Shah and Cancer survivors…
  • Canshala - Bringing School and Normalcy To Children with Childhood Cancer
    Children who are out of town patients often miss school for months on end. This affects the child socially and psychologically and often makes reintegration back to school difficult. Dr. Shital Raval visits Canshala which helps bridge that gap by providing continuity of education and normalcy to a child’s life. Set in a Municipal Marathi school in Parel, Canshala is a school for children with cancer, run in collaboration with the Mumbai MCGM. In contrast to the drab exterior, Canshala is a…
  • A picture of childhood cancer patients playing carrom
    Help children with cancer develop skills to cope with stress and anxiety
    On International Childhood Cancer Day, Poonam Bagai, Founder Chairman of Cankids...Kidscan, a family support group for children suffering from cancer and their families, talks at length about how hard it is to tackle the medical and emotional wellbeing of a child who learns to grapple with reality through various stages of his treatment.  1. What are the objectives of Cankids? CanKids...KidsCan is a National Society for Change for Childhood Cancer in India & YANA (You are not Alone) -…
  • Be Aware of Symptoms of Lymphoma to Ensure Early Diagnosis
    World Lymphoma Awareness Day 2016 Vandana Gupta, a Lymphoma cancer survivor, decided to put her difficult phase in life to bring help and support to good use when she founded V Care, a support group for Cancer patients in Mumbai. Here, for Lymphoma Awareness Day she addresses questions by PatientsEngage: What are the barriers to receiving the right treatment for lymphoma?   A lack of awareness of the symptoms for Lymphoma often gets it confused with TB. On top of that, there are not too…
  • Bone Marrow Donation is as simple as a blood donation
    Jane Prior of the Bone Marrow Donor Programme, Singapore takes a closer look at the myths and misconceptions surrounding the impact bone marrow donation may have on your own health.  First, we need to understand why we need to donate blood stem cells. Certain diseases destroy bone marrows or cause it to not function normally. As bone marrow is crucial in the production of blood, this may lead to the endangerment of one’s life if the bone marrow is not working properly.  Myth 1:…