Beating our breasts: Twenty New Zealand women tell their breast cancer stories. 2000. Edited by M. Clark. Auckland: Cape Catley.
Margaret Clark has compiled, edited and contributed to this collection of 20 short stories. Women who have been diagnosed, treated and lived with/after breast cancers write all stories. The book aims to provide comfort to other breast cancer patients, family members and friends. The contents provide details of each woman's coping strategies and the steps they each took to help them to heal.
Each story varies in length, from two, to eleven pages. All include a photographic portrait of the author. The book was published with the help of the New Zealand Cancer Society. The contributors are: Jan Bolwell, Margaret Clark, Pam Elder, Marti Friedlander, Dorothy Gentry, Indus Grange, Nola Holmes, Pat Jeffries, Tricia Laing, Geraldine McDonald, Shona McFarlane, Gaye Matheson, Kay Morris Matthews, Lois Muir, Pam Piddington, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jill Skafer, Philippa Tait, Angela Werren and Gillian Whitehead.
Description: 135 pages/ 21 cm/ 0908561814.
R181
Breast cancer network NZ: A New Zealand wide grassroots organisation for women with breast cancer and their supporters 2006.
[online], [cited 10 June 2006]. Available from: http://www.breastcancer.nzco.net.
Barbara Holt and Wendy Steenstra-Bloomfield formed the breast cancer network in 1993. The networks overalls goals are for breast cancer advocacy and support. The website contains a small amount of history of the network, the newsletter: Upfront, personal stories and information on projects and events. To locate the personal stories: click on Personal kiwi stories -on the left hand margin. A list of stories will appear with name of person and short extract of their story. Click on the name of the person to read their story. Most stories are between 40 and 80 words. To navigate back to the list of stories the user will need to use the back button or click on personal kiwi stories link again.
R182
Canteen: Supporting young people living with cancer 2006.[online], [cited 28 March 2006]. Available from: http://www.canteen.org.nz/.
CanTeen was established to ensure support can be provided for any young person in New Zealand living with cancer. The website provides informational support for the young person's mind, body and spirit. To navigate the members stories, click the Mind link and then on the left hand margin click on the CanTeen members stories. There will be a list of 14 stories and small extract. To read a whole story click Read on at the bottom of the extract. The stories are mostly concerned with how CanTeen has provided support while providing insight into their own experience with cancer. All stories include a photograph of the person and most have the person's age. However, it is impossible to determine when some of the authors were diagnosed with cancer or submitted their story. Stories include: Rich (Ewing's sarcoma); Selina (acute lymphoblastic lymphoma and secondary lump behind lung); Tammy (sister); Aeornwy (weight gain); Mereana (acute myeloid leukaemia); April (cancer in her bone marrow); Karyn (twin brother with leukaemia); Kirsten (osteoblastic sarcoma); Rachel (Ewing's sarcoma); Jennie (sister with leukaemia); Jeff (testicular); Michael (brain tumour) and Prudence (Chordoma).
R183
I feel lucky: Interviews and photographs celebrating cancer survivors. 1995. Edited by H. Ogonowska-Coates: R. & J. Watson Trust.
This is a compilation of uplifting and brief recollections from ordinary people who have survived cancer. Each person was interviewed by Halina Ogonowska-Coates and photographed by Ian Robertson. All stories are written in first person. The book contains ten short stories (no more than 200 words each) with photographic images of each person. A small exhibition catalogue accompanied the touring exhibition within New Zealand. Each story is printed on translucent paper and sentences are layered one or two pages deep, with the photographic image coming through the layers. The cancer survivors are: Stefan Wahrlich (unnamed), Nicky Latimer (breast), Michael Raine (testicular), Ngaire Wassiflieff (breast), Coral Davies (breast), Norman Austin (colon), Annabel McCallum (lung melanoma), Reno Takiwa (brain), Jenni Fennessy (dermatofibrosarcoma) and Halina Ogonowska-Coates (ovary).
Description: 41 pages/ 15 cm.
R184
Thomas, Cynthia. 2004. Pulling together: A book for young people living with cancer. Auckland: Reed.
This young adult book provides insight into why CanTeen is important for teenagers. It focuses on how CanTeen has improved a teenager's understanding of cancer and ability to cope with having cancer. Included are brief examples from CanTeen members about how CanTeen has helped them and why they appreciate CanTeen. Mentioned are CanTeen social activities; cancer education and extended support friends and family. Members also mention CanTeen helping them come to terms with cancer, death or moving beyond cancer. Members share very brief experiences (too small to be annotated separately) of chemotherapy, going to school while having chemotherapy, losing friendships, being terminal and reactions from others to the diagnosis or hair loss. They provide tips for long hospital stays, coping with hair loss and short-term side effects.
Description: 48 pages/ colour photographs of CanTeen members/ 19 x 21 cm/ 0790009439.
R185
You are not alone. 2005. Edited by C. Hodson and L. Wevers. Nelson: Stump Creek.
Catharine commissioned this book for the exhibition Touching the unthinkable: Encounter with breast cancer. The exhibition focuses on art and breast cancer. The other commissioned artworks were made of metal, wood and ceramics. Catharine also used objects she found while being treated for breast cancer in hospital. The exhibition engages the visitors to experience a different understanding of the breast cancer experience, hospital spaces and traditional objects. The book, You are not alone, focuses on the subject, Melissa da Souza-Correa. Stories can be quite brief (two paragraphs to two pages). Melissa's husband, son, daughter, sisters, father and friends write the stories. They provide their own understanding, reactions and interpretation of breast cancer while focusing on Melissa as the subject. Interweaved are stories from medical practitioners. These have not been included in the bibliography as their content often focused about the general nature of their jobs, as opposed to reflecting on their specific experiences of breast cancer.
Description: 25 pages/ 30 cm/ 0473101467.
Anthologies
R180
Beating our breasts: Twenty New Zealand women tell their
breast cancer stories. 2000. Edited by M. Clark.
Auckland: Cape Catley.
Margaret Clark has compiled, edited and contributed to this collection of 20 short stories. Women who have been diagnosed, treated and lived with/after breast cancers write all stories. The book aims to provide comfort to other breast cancer patients, family members and friends. The contents provide details of each woman's coping strategies and the steps they each took to help them to heal.
Each story varies in length, from two, to eleven pages. All include a photographic portrait of the author. The book was published with the help of the New Zealand Cancer Society. The contributors are: Jan Bolwell, Margaret Clark, Pam Elder, Marti Friedlander, Dorothy Gentry, Indus Grange, Nola Holmes, Pat Jeffries, Tricia Laing, Geraldine McDonald, Shona McFarlane, Gaye Matheson, Kay Morris Matthews, Lois Muir, Pam Piddington, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jill Skafer, Philippa Tait, Angela Werren and Gillian Whitehead.
Description: 135 pages/ 21 cm/ 0908561814
R181
Breast cancer network NZ: A New Zealand wide grassroots
organisation for women with breast cancer and their
supporters 2006. [online], [cited 10 June 2006].
Available from http://www.breastcancer.nzco.net.
Barbara Holt and Wendy Steenstra-Bloomfield formed the breast cancer network in 1993. The networks overalls goals are for breast cancer advocacy and support. The website contains a small amount of history of the network, the newsletter: Upfront, personal stories and information on projects and events. To locate the personal stories: click on Personal kiwi stories -on the left hand margin. A list of stories will appear with name of person and short extract of their story. Click on the name of the person to read their story. Most stories are between 40 and 80 words. To navigate back to the list of stories the user will need to use the back button or click on personal kiwi stories link again.
R182
Canteen: Supporting young people living with cancer 2006.
[online], [cited 28 March 2006]. Available fromhttp://www.canteen.org.nz/.
CanTeen was established to ensure support can be provided for any young person in New Zealand living with cancer. The website provides informational support for the young person's mind, body and spirit. To navigate the members stories, click the Mind link and then on the left hand margin click on the CanTeen members stories. There will be a list of 14 stories and small extract. To read a whole story click Read on at the bottom of the extract. The stories are mostly concerned with how CanTeen has provided support while providing insight into their own experience with cancer. All stories include a photograph of the person and most have the person's age. However, it is impossible to determine when some of the authors were diagnosed with cancer or submitted their story. Stories include: Rich (Ewing's sarcoma); Selina (acute lymphoblastic lymphoma and secondary lump behind lung); Tammy (sister); Aeornwy (weight gain); Mereana (acute myeloid leukaemia); April (cancer in her bone marrow); Karyn (twin brother with leukaemia); Kirsten (osteoblastic sarcoma); Rachel (Ewing's sarcoma); Jennie (sister with leukaemia); Jeff (testicular); Michael (brain tumour) and Prudence (Chordoma).
R183
I feel lucky: Interviews and photographs celebrating cancer
survivors. 1995. Edited by H. Ogonowska-Coates: R. &
J. Watson Trust.
This is a compilation of uplifting and brief recollections from ordinary people who have survived cancer. Each person was interviewed by Halina Ogonowska-Coates and photographed by Ian Robertson. All stories are written in first person. The book contains ten short stories (no more than 200 words each) with photographic images of each person. A small exhibition catalogue accompanied the touring exhibition within New Zealand. Each story is printed on translucent paper and sentences are layered one or two pages deep, with the photographic image coming through the layers. The cancer survivors are: Stefan Wahrlich (unnamed), Nicky Latimer (breast), Michael Raine (testicular), Ngaire Wassiflieff (breast), Coral Davies (breast), Norman Austin (colon), Annabel McCallum (lung melanoma), Reno Takiwa (brain), Jenni Fennessy (dermatofibrosarcoma) and Halina Ogonowska-Coates (ovary).
Description: 41 pages/ 15 cm
R184 Thomas, Cynthia. 2004. Pulling together: A book for young
people living with cancer. Auckland: Reed.This young adult book provides insight into why CanTeen is important for teenagers. It focuses on how CanTeen has improved a teenager's understanding of cancer and ability to cope with having cancer. Included are brief examples from CanTeen members about how CanTeen has helped them and why they appreciate CanTeen. Mentioned are CanTeen social activities; cancer education and extended support friends and family. Members also mention CanTeen helping them come to terms with cancer, death or moving beyond cancer. Members share very brief experiences (too small to be annotated separately) of chemotherapy, going to school while having chemotherapy, losing friendships, being terminal and reactions from others to the diagnosis or hair loss. They provide tips for long hospital stays, coping with hair loss and short-term side effects. Description: 48 pages/ colour photographs of CanTeen members/ 19 x 21 cm/ 0790009439.
R185
You are not alone. 2005. Edited by C. Hodson and L. Wevers.
Nelson: Stump Creek.
Catharine commissioned this book for the exhibition Touching the unthinkable: Encounter with breast cancer. The exhibition focuses on art and breast cancer. The other commissioned artworks were made of metal, wood and ceramics. Catharine also used objects she found while being treated for breast cancer in hospital. The exhibition engages the visitors to experience a different understanding of the breast cancer experience, hospital spaces and traditional objects. The book, You are not alone, focuses on the subject, Melissa da Souza-Correa. Stories can be quite brief (two paragraphs to two pages). Melissa's husband, son, daughter, sisters, father and friends write the stories. They provide their own understanding, reactions and interpretation of breast cancer while focusing on Melissa as the subject. Interweaved are stories from medical practitioners. These have not been included in the bibliography as their content often focused about the general nature of their jobs, as opposed to reflecting on their specific experiences of breast cancer.