What follows is a list of the key articles and features published in all previous issues of Con tact. If you would like a copy of any article or previous issue, please click on the links or contact the Editor: itm2@le.ac.uk, or tel: 0116 2494461.
ISSUE 14 Palliative Care: SPRING 2002
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Back to Basics: The Living Years (focus on Palliative Care from nursing team at Great Ormond Street and a parent's perspective)
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Busy Lizzi: a personal story of Lizzi Cross diagnosed at 16 with a Wilms tumour and how she coped with diagnosis and treatment
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Giving bullet their best shot: scientists whose son died from leukaemia set up their own research charity Leukaemia Busters and explain their latest research
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Stronger together: Parents tell the story of learning their 18 month old daughter was terminally ill and how they coped with the weeks leading up to her death
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ISSUE 15 Survivors/Late Effects: SUMMER 2002
- Back to Basics: Sunnyside Up (Focus on long term follow up clinics and importance of survivors attending)
- Playing it for Real: development of an information leaflet 'What's the point of coming to clinic' for young people who have had cancer
- Welcome to my world: a personal story of Australian Naarah Higgins diagnosed at 14 with leukaemia
- It's their wonderwall: A look at the holidays provided by the Over the Wall Gang Camp from a family perspective
- How I got a Life: Story of Claire Dilleigh, who eleven years off treatment for leukaemia is living life to the full
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ISSUE 16: Clinical Trials AUTUMN 2002
- Back to Basics: Back to Basics - In the blink of an eye (Focus on soft tissue sarcomas)
- Tried and Trusted: An insight into the workings of the clinical trial
- In a moment of madness: Ex patient returns to work at the hospital where she was treated for osteosarcoma
- The vision to make its mark: Focus on The Retinoblastoma Society
- Journey of Discovery: A look at two charities dedicated to research into cancers affecting young adults
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ISSUE 17 Caring/parent stress: WINTER 2002
- Back to Basics: Giving lymphomas short shrift (Focus on Non Hodgkin lymphoma)
- Don't Shoot the Messenger: (Breaking bad news)
- Coping when your world is torn apart: coping strategies for families
- A family/parental perspective of the journey through treatment
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