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Kids Tell Kids What It's Like When Their Mother or Father Has Cancer
As anyone who has gone through a cancer experience knows, everyone in the family is affected. Children talk about their hopes, fears and the adult burden placed upon them when cancer strikes a parent. The film is faithful to the kid's point-of-view and validates the children's emotions. This award-winning 15 minute documentary for children who have a parent with cancer encourages communication between family members.

$40.00






The Road Ahead
This 2-part DVD tackles the issues facing anyone who will be receiving chemotherapy to treat their cancer. The DVD focuses on both the concerns of family members and the patient’s questions and fears. Each program profiles oncology health professionals, caregivers and survivors sharing insight and practical information.

$60.00






A Dialogue with Cancer: Communication between Doctors and Patients
Communication is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you are diagnosed with cancer, this can be an even more challenging task. By improving communication between doctors and patients, we can develop a relationship based on trust and compassion. This DVD profiles cancer patients and their doctors as they navigate through diagnosis, treatment and recovery. Together, they engage in a dialogue that promotes understanding, identifies barriers and encourages change.

$40.00






Women with Recurrent Breast Cancer and Their Daughters Share Their Experiences
This 2-part DVD was developed to help facilitate communication between women with recurrent breast cancer and their teenage daughters. This DVD includes two perspectives, one for mothers, "Mother to Daughter" and one for daughters, "Daughter to Mother."

$60.00






Going the Distance: Facing Lung Cancer Together
When a person is diagnosed with lung cancer, patient must turn to healthcare providers and their family for guidance. Decisions about treatment are made in concert with all involved, as a team. This patient education DVD facilitates communication, provides information and practical advice to lung cancer patients and their spouses.

$40.00






Women With Lung Cancer Share Their Stories
Lung cancer is perceived as a man's disease, but it is an extremely common cancer in women. Today one of the greatest threats to a woman's health is lung cancer. By being an active participant in your care you can take control of your illness. The women you will meet in this program have faced the challenge of lung cancer and survived.

This DVD, Women With Lung Cancer Share Their Stories, provides patients and caregivers with practical advice and personal insights from women who have survived lung cancer.

This patient-education DVD facilitates communication, provides information and emotional support to families as they confront the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.


$40.00







Back to Work After Breast Cancer
This DVD tells the story of six vibrant women, each intent on making a contribution through their careers. The women work at different jobs, but are alike in one important way: they are balancing the demands of a breast cancer illness and work. Back to Work After Breast Cancer explores the challenges women face in the workplace as they journey through treatment to recovery.

$40.00






Celebrating the Journey: The Spirit of Cancer Survivors
As cancer research, diagnosis and treatment significantly increase survival, more people are living with a “history” of cancer. In this DVD cancer survivors are profiled, sharing a message of hope and empowerment.

$40.00






Life Matters: A Journey of Hope and Survival
In this one-hour documentary that aired on PBS, Cancervive Founder Susan Keeney travels throughout the United States meeting 4 women of different ages who have survived cancer. This DVD is both personal and universal in that it identifies survivorship issues; fear of recurrence, re-connecting with family, workplace challenges and finding meaning through the cancer experience.

$60.00






Living With Multiple Myeloma
This patient education DVD explores the experience of living with this disease. The program addresses the disease process, advances in treatment options, making critical decisions and coping strategies from those who have “been there.”

$40.00






Living with MDS
In this DVD, one learns about MDS, the symptoms leading to diagnosis, the treatment options and how patients live fully with the illness. The program includes interviews with MDS specialists sharing valuable medical information.

$40.00






DVDs for Caregivers



Multiple Myeloma: The Caregiver's Prespective
Coming Soon!

$40.00






Spouse to Spouse What It's Like When Your Partner Has Cancer
Husbands and wives of people with cancer discuss their deepest emotions, sharing their fears and hopes as both partner and caregiver. The spouses, from varied backgrounds and at different stages in their lives, speak to how the illness tests the strength and endurance of their marriage. This 18 minute DVD will help spouses of people with cancer articulate difficult feelings and encourage greater communication between partners.

$40.00








Ties that Bind: Diversity and breast cancer
Meet 4 women with breast cancer and their partners as they encounter cultural and societal barriers to dealing with their illness. They share the common bond of having cancer, but also face obstacles of health literacy, language and stigma.

$40.00








Daughter to Mother: Teenage Girls Whose Mothers are Living with Recurrent Breast Cancer Share Their Experiences
In this 15 minute documentary, four teenage girls whose mothers are living with recurrent breast cancer express their thoughts and feelings. This DVD was developed to encourage teens and their mothers to share difficult emotions.

$40.00






Making the Grade: Back to School After Cancer for Teens
The teenage years are difficult for healthy children, but when a teen is diagnosed with cancer there are many new challenges. Learn from teens that are going to school after being diagnosed with cancer just how they transition back into the school setting. This program is an excellent resource for teens, parents and educators.

$40.00






Emily's Story: Back to School After Cancer
Childhood cancer survivor Susan Nessim Keeney introduces us to Emily, a nine year old girl with Leukemia in this 15 minute documentary. Through this DVD we follow Emily, from her hospitalization to her successful return to classmates and school life. The partnership between the patient, school and hospital is stressed, as well as raising awareness about the challenges of school re-entry.

$40.00



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