| Organisation: | Help Adolescents with Cancer | Comment: | Help Adolescents with Cancer (HAWC) is run by adolescents with cancer for adolescents with cancer and they offer support to others by drawing on their own experiences. HAWC can offer the following:
+ social activities;
+ group meetings;
+ workshops and holidays;
+ support and counselling.
HAWC counselling aims to give members and their parents and siblings an opportunity to talk, explore feelings, think about problems in a new way and covers issues such as: anxiety over forthcoming treatment (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, bone marrow transplant); effect of hair loss; future possibility of having children; how to talk to medical professionals. The aims of the organisation is to have all people whose lives have been affected by Cancer or any life threatening disease as an adolescent, in Great Britain or the Channel Islands as a member of HAWC. Together they will have their voices heard by those who matter. Together they are able to ascertain the source of treatment most suitable to individuals wherever they may live. | | Phone: | 0161-688-6244
| | Fax: | 0161-682-4020 | Contact name: | Niki Winnard | | Address: | 1st. Floor, Post Office Buidling
338 Hollinwood Avenue, New Moston
Manchester
M40 0JB
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| Internet: |  www.hawc-co-uk.com
| Email: | [email protected] or [email protected] | Who is it for: | Adolescents with cancer, and their families | How to Contact: | Contact direct - write, phone, e-mail or via the website | | Languages: | Punjabi, Spanish, Greek, German | Cost: | Membership is free | | Opening Times: | Helpline staffed 24/7 | Record updated:16 Mar 2007
If the above record is incorrect please complete the update request form to advise the GUIDE Information Service. Help Adolescents with Cancer phone: 0161-688-6244 or email: [email protected] or [email protected] |
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