CCCF Newsletters

I have a pet peeve: Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation (US, national) publishes a semi-quarterly journal with great articles but they only list detailed contents for the current issue. So, I went through each pdf journal version and made a table of contents of each.

In my table of contents, I have only included the articles. Each issue also has an story or poem or two by a parent or by a young person with cancer, alerts to good books, and other useful information. All good reading. The newsletters are here:

CCCF Newsletters

"My table of contents for the CCCFNewsletters"

2005, Spring

Age Matters: The Problems with Teen Cancer Care by Karen Albritton MD
FMLA Regulations Being Challenged by Ruth Hoffman

2004, Fall

Neuropsychological Testing: An Excerpt from Educating the Child with Cancer

2004, Summer

Family Medical Leave Act and Childhood Cancer by Ruth I. Hoffman

2003, Fall

Genetics and Anti-Leukemia Therapy: The TPMT Story by Mary Relling MD
New Approaches for Resistant Brain Tumors by Roger Packer MD (Includes Rhabdoid Tumors)
Improving Informed Consent in Childhood Cancer Trials by Eric Kodish MD

2003, Spring

Late Effects Of Treatment To The Teeth by Nancy Keene & Kevin Oeffinger MD
It’s only a Phase! Clinical Trials Part II by Dr. Susan Shurin, MD

2002, Fall

Comprehensive Follow-Up Programs: A Necessity Not A Luxury by Nancy Keene & Kevin Oeffinger MD
Clinical Trials Part I by Steven Hirschfeld MD
Study Launched on Rare Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Disorders and Cancer Risk http://marrowfailure.cancer.gov.

2002, Spring

Targeting Cancer In The 21st Century by Brian J. Druker, M.D.
Bone Health after Childhood Cancer by Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger, MD
New Alliance to Advocate For Children With Cancer Formally Announced
FDA Considers Suspending ‘Pediatric Rule’ by Ruth Hoffman

2001, Fall

Palliative or Hospice Care: Does my child need this service? By Joanne Hilden MD and Sarah Friebert MD
Cognitive Late Effects To The Brain, Part II By Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger MD

2001, Summer

Cognitive Late effects in Leukemia Survivors By Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger MD

2001, Spring

Treating High-Risk Neuroblastoma at the Turn of the Century by C. Patrick Reynolds, MD PhD and Beth Hasenauer, RN MS
Late Effects to the Thyroid Gland By Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger MD

2000, Winter

From Petrie Dish to Patient: Targeting Cancer with Monoclonal Antibodies by Susan Edmonds
Late Effects to the Heart: Radiation and the Heart by Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger MD

2000, Summer

Children’s Oncology Group (COG): New Cooperative Group Created to Cure and Prevent
Genetic Changes in Cancer Second of Three Parts by Eric P. Hoffman PhD
Long Term Follow Up Care: Is it Necessary? By Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger MD

2000, Spring

Practical Genetics in Cancer: The Human Genetic Code by Eric P. Hoffman PhD
Second Malignancies? by Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger M.D.
Study: Avoiding vitamins A, E might improve cancer therapy
Your Child and the Individualized Education Program (IEP) by Ruth Hoffman

1999, Fall

Cord Blood Transplantation by Leonard Johnson, M.D.

Hepatitis C in survivors of childhood cancer by Nancy Keene and Kevin Oeffinger M.D.

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The Americans With Disabilities Act by Mary Helmreich

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