Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation’s Childhood Cancer Guides are helpful resources for childhood cancer families. We’ve combined important information about diagnoses, treatments, procedures, coping mechanisms, survivorship, and more with personal stories from children and their loved ones so that newly diagnosed childhood cancer families can feel prepared and supported when starting treatment.

The cancer-specific guides are organized in a way that parallels most families’ journeys. They start with a chapter about receiving a cancer diagnosis, followed by chapters about choosing treatment options, coping with procedures, communicating with medical staff, and more. However, each chapter in the books can stand alone, so you can skip sections and only read the chapters you feel are most relevant to you at this moment in time.

When collecting stories from childhood cancer families, we wanted to emphasize the variety of experiences a child may have when undergoing treatment. Every child sails smoothly through some portions of treatment but encounters difficulties during others. Only a fraction of the problems that parents describe will affect your child. We hope these guides will offer you a better understanding of the variability of cancer experiences so that you can offer support to your own child as well as to other families you meet with differing diagnoses and circumstances.

We hope these guides are helpful resources for childhood cancer families as well as extended family members, caregivers, friends, and other loved ones. You can view the ebook version of each guide by clicking “Read This Guide.” If you are a childhood cancer family, you can request a free PDF version by clicking “Request a PDF Version” or a physical copy by clicking “Request a Printed Version.” If you are not a childhood cancer family but would like a physical copy, you can purchase one from Alex's Shop.