PARENT RESOURCES

Communication
To create a web page to update your family and friends try these useful websites:
• Caringbridge www.caringbridge.org
• Care Pages www.carepages.com
• Blogspot www.blogspot.com

Financial Assistance
To seek limited financial assistance with certain expenses related to treatment visit some of the following websites:
• Cancer Care www.cancercare.org 1–800–813–4673 (1–800–813–HOPE)
• Leukemia Lymphoma Society www.leukemia-lymphoma.org 1–800–955–4572
• ACOR www.acor.org
• National Childhood Cancer Society www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.org

Insurance Issues
For assistance with patient insurance or finding programs that will help with costs of healthcare:
• Patient Advocate Foundation www.patientadvocate.org
• Needymeds www.needymeds.com

Travel Assistance
To find information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medical air transportation and get referrals to appropriate sources of help available Contact:
• National Patient Travel Help line www.patienttravel.org 1–800–296–1217
• Corporate Angels www.corpangelnetwork.org
• Mercy Medical Airlifts www.mercymedical.org
• National Patient Travel Center www.patienttravel.org
• Air lifeline www.airlifeline.org
• Air lifeline Midwest www.airlifelinemidwest.org

Temporary Housing
To find temporary housing program for families of cancer patients who are undergoing treatment:
• Hope Lodge www.cancer.org/Hope_Lodge.asp
• Ronald McDonald House www.rmhc.org

Education
• Cure Search www.curesearch.org
• Association of cancer online resources www.acor.org
• ACS www.cancer.org
• NCCS www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.org
• National cancer institution www.cancer.gov ( Cancer has its own vocabulary, the NCI site contains a comprehensive glossary, use it as a reference whenever you need it)
• Candlelighters www.candlelighters.org
Candlelighters offer free educational books for both adults and children to help during treatment and beyond.

Advocacy
The statistics surrounding childhood cancer and cancer are staggering. We understand that your time is precious but it takes very little and there is no commitment to joining these e-campaigns.you will be improving public awareness of the issues surrounding childhood cancer and learning about the current initiatives that affect
the care of children with cancer.
• Cure Search www.curesearch.org
• Lance Armstrong Foundation www.livestrong.org
• Wear your gold ribbon pin www.goldribbons.com

The National Transplant Assistance Fund
To find help with fundraising for uninsured expenses related to Bone Marrow Transplants, and to research the bone marrow registry.
• Transplant Fund www.transplantfund.org
• National Marrow Donor Program www.Marrow.org
• Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide www.bmdw.org

Nausea control
• Queasy pops www.threelollies.com

Smoking Cessation
• Quitnet www.quitnet.com
• Free Clear www.freeclear.com
• Lung USA www.lungusa.org