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If your child has cancer – this comprehensive guide can help you learn how childhood cancers are diagnosed and treated, as well as how to manage common health problems during treatment. It shares coping and support strategies for every member of your family. Developed by a multidisciplinary a team of experts from across the National…
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Life After Cancer Treatment: Facing Forward is a booklet for people who have completed cancer treatment. This booklet covers your new normal, getting follow-up medical care and how to talk with your doctor, following a survivorship care plan, ways to manage physical changes, body changes and intimacy issues, coping with your feelings, and going back…
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Radiation Therapy and You is a booklet for people who are undergoing radiation therapy for cancer. It explains the different types of radiation therapy and what you can expect during treatment. It also explains which side effects you may have depending on the part of your body being treated and suggests tips for managing them.…
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Eating Hints is a booklet for people who are having or are about to have cancer treatment. This booklet explains ways that you can prepare to eat well before cancer treatment. It covers common types of eating problems you may experience during cancer treatment and suggests ways to manage them. And once treatment is over,…
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Cancer Pain Control is a booklet for people who have pain from cancer or from its treatment. This booklet covers the types and causes of cancer pain, how to talk about your pain with your health care team, how to make your pain control plan work for you, pain control medicines and side effects, medicine…
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Surgery Choices for Women with DCIS and Breast cancer is a booklet for newly-diagnosed women who are facing a decision about which surgery to have. This booklet explains and compares the various surgical options to help women decide which one is best for them. Talk with Surgeons Learn the Facts about DCIS and Breast Cancer…
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This guide helps women understand next steps after an abnormal mammogram finding. It’s reassuring to know that less than 10% of women called back for more tests are found to have breast cancer. Learn about normal breast changes which can happen over a women’s lifetime that are not cancer and what it means to have…
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Food Distribution Division is pleased to provide this recipe book developed for Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) participants and staff.We know that the USDA Foods we offer through FDPIR are as good as, or better than, the brands you find in…
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This publication will help adults who have depression, as well as their loved ones, to understand the illness and its symptoms, as well as how it can be treated. In addition, it will help parents identify whether their children may be suffering from depression and need treatment. This eBook provides an overview on depression. Depression,…
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If you’ve just learned that your Pap test or HPV test was abnormal, and have questions, this guide has answers. It reassures women that most abnormal cervical screening results are not cancer, but rather early cell changes that can be monitored or treated. HPV test results and Pap test results (ASC-US, AGC, LSIL, ASC-H, HSIL,…
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