Young Women


ONLINE RESOURCES


Rethink Breast Cancer
www.rethinkbreastcancer.com


Young Survival Coalition
www.youngsurvival.org


Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Cancer
www.youngsurvivorsconference.org


Myself : Together Again - One Young Woman's Story of Breast Cancer Recovery and Reconstruction 
www.myselftogetheragain.org


Young Cancer Spouses
www.youngcancerspouses.org 


Living Beyond Breast Cancer – Young women
www.lbbc.org/Audiences/Young-Women


The Woman is Stronger than the Disease : A Guidance Journal for Young Women with Breast Cancer
Young Women’s Breast Cancer Program at Washington University School of Medicine
ywbcp.wustl.edu/files/Breast%20Cancer%20Journal%2007.pdf


Younger Women with Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Care UK
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/BCC66_younger_women__bc_booklet.pdf

 

 

FERTILITY & PREGNANCY


Fertile Future
www.fertilefuture.ca
 

Fertile Hope
www.fertilehope.org


MyOncofertility.org
www.myoncofertility.org
 

Hope for Two
www.pregnantwithcancer.org


Fertility, Pregnancy, Adoption
Breastcancer.org
www.breastcancer.org/tips/fert_preg_adopt


Fertility Issues and Breast Cancer Treatment
Breast Cancer Care UK
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/BCC28_fertility_issues_09_web_pdf.pdf


Women's Fertility and Chemotherapy
Cancer Research UK
www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=326

 

 

EARLY MENOPAUSE

                                                                                

Breast Cancer and Early Menopause – A Guide for Younger Women
National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre
www.nbocc.org.au/view-document-details/bcmc-breast-cancer-and-early-menopause-a-guide-for-younger-women
 

Managing Menopausal Symptoms
Breastcancer.org
www.breastcancer.org/tips/menopausal
 

Breast Cancer Treatment and Menopausal Symptoms
Macmillan Cancer Support
www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertypes/Breastfemale/Livingwithbreastcancer/Menopausalsymptoms/Menopausalsymptoms.aspx


Menopausal Symptoms and Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Care UK
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/Menopausal_symptoms_factsheet_BCC18.pdf
 

Early Menopause Guidebook
The North American Menopause Society
www.menopause.org/edumaterials/earlyguidebook.aspx

 
 

ONLINE COMMUNITY SUPPORT

 

Willow-talk
www.willow.org/community-login
 

Young Survival Coalition
community.youngsurvival.org

Young Women with Breast Cancer
Breastcancer.org
community.breastcancer.org/forum/27
 

Younger Women
Breast Cancer Care UK
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/bcc-forum/14/


RealTime Cancer Community
Young Adult Cancer Canada
www.youngadultcancer.ca


I'm Too Young For This!
www.imtooyoungforthis.org


Planet Cancer
myplanet.planetcancer.org



FILMS


Wrong Way to Hope: An Inspiring Story of Young Adults and Cancer
, directed by Aaron Bryant (2009)
Watch online at www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10198/Wrong-Way-to-Hope--An-Inspiring-Story-of-Young-Adults-and-Cancer



BOOKS

 

Just a Lump in the Road : Reflections of Young Breast Cancer Survivors, by Debbie Leifert. (iUniverse, 2008)

Nordie's at Noon : The Personal Stories of Four Women "Too Young" for Breast Cancer, by Patti Balwanz, Kim Carlos, Jennifer Johnson, and Jana Peters (Da Capo, 2006)

Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, by Geralyn Lucas (St. Martin's Press, 2004)

I'm Too Young to Have Breast Cancer! : Regain Control of Your Life, Career, Family, Sexuality, and Faith, by Beth Leibson-Hawkins. (LifeLine Press, 2004)

Fighting for Our Future : How Young Women Find Strength, Hope, and Courage While Taking Control of Breast Cancer, by Beth Murphy (McGraw-Hill, 2003)

The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming, and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer, by Jennie Nash (Penguin, 2002)

Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s, by Kairol Ronsenthal (JohnWiley & Sons, 2009)

100 Questions & Answers About Cancer and Fertility, by Kutluck H.Oktay, Lindsay Nohr Beck, and Joyce Dillon Reinecke (Jones and Bartlett, 2008)