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Cancer Survivors Network Newsletter

July 2006

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Because … Someone I Love Has Cancer: Kids' Activity Book

Because … you want to help address kids' questions and concerns, too! Created by experts to address the basic goals of therapeutic support for children, Because … Someone I Love Has Cancer provides numerous well-paced exercises that progressively teach coping skills. The assuring and comforting tone in this innovative workbook can help children find "solid ground" and see glimmers of hope amidst the confusing world of a loved one’s illness. To order, please call 1-800-ACS-2345 or click here.

ACS On-line Classes: Sneak Preview

The American Cancer Society is developing online classes for cancer survivors and caregivers. The classes cover many topics, including learning about cancer, pain, nutrition, and cancer treatments. Before we make them available to the public, we are asking CSN members to review one or more classes and give us feedback. On average, it takes about 30 minutes to review a class and complete a brief survey. Please contact Kristi Richardson by July 17 at 404-929-6801 or kristi.richardson@cancer.org if you are interested in helping with this project.

CSN Survey: Coming soon to an in-box near you

Your CSN staff is teaming up with ACS Behavioral Research Center staff to conduct a CSN membership survey. For a variety of reasons, we don’t know as much about the demographics of our entire membership as we’d like, or what the majority interests are with regard to cancer survivorship issues. We’ll be piloting a brief membership survey with 200 randomly selected CSN members this month. After making any necessary tweaks, we’ll be emailing the survey to all CSN members for whom we have a valid email address.

If you receive the CSN newsletter, we have your valid email address, but nearly half of our membership doesn’t receive a newsletter because they haven’t kept us informed about changes in their email address. Please encourage your CSN buddies to make sure we have their current email address. It can be updated on the CSN profile page. The link to the profile page is on your CSN Start Page. Thanks!

Helpful Tools

Need help eating healthy and staying active?

If so, please contact your American Cancer Society’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Helpline! You will learn easy ways to help incorporate nutrition and physical activity into your daily routine:

* Set personal goals for your nutrition and physical activity habits
* Cook using healthy ingredients, shop for low-fat foods, and have fun exercising
* Make your new healthy living choices last a lifetime

Remember that small changes will make a big impact on you and your family. For more information call 1-877-4R-LIVES (1-877-475-4837)

Clinical Trials

The American Cancer Society provides a free clinical trials matching service in collaboration with EmergingMed, a private health and information technology application service provider. To access this free service or obtain more information, call 1-800-303-5691 or read the clinical trials page on the ACS Web site.

Treatment Decision Tools

For free cancer treatment decision tools log on to the interactive NexProfiler ™. View recently published clinical literature in the following tools: breast, non-small cell lung, prostate, pancreatic, and bladder. If you have any questions or need assistance with these tools, please call NexCura's toll-free support number at 1-877-422-3229 or email support@nexcura.com .

Find a Treatment Center

Need to find a treatment center in your area, maybe one with a particular cancer specialty? The American Cancer Society provides databases and directories for hospitals, health care facilities, and physician information. Visit the ACS Web site for information about services offered, treatments available, and physician specialties to help you locate the treatment center you're looking for.

From the ACS News Center

From the ACS News Center

From the CSN Talk Shows and Stories

Happening This Month

Join a Relay for Life team and walk, jog, or run overnight to celebrate survivorship and raise money for cancer research and support programs.
Walk in a Making Strides against Breast Cancer fundraising event and help make breast cancer a thing of the past.
Find other events on our Calendar of Events.

Your CSN Staff

Do you need assistance navigating our site? Do you have any questions? Any comments or ideas? Do not hesitate to contact your CSN staff!

greta

the CSN guy

CSN Dana

About the American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service. For information on cancer or American Cancer Society programs, please call 1-800- ACS-2345 (1-800-227-2345) or visit www.cancer.org.

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