title: A Day With Dr. Waddle by Research, Center for Basic Cancer (1988) Paperback (English and Spanish Edition)
author: Johnson Cancer Research Center at Kansas State University
description: Dr. Waddle has certainly made an impression on our young students, as well as the adults who have read about his day to prepare for teaching! The lay scientist approach to explaining the disease paves a path of knowledge that may help all of us understand that cancer is not something bad that happens to good people. It's just something that happens because we are human. Thank you and your colleagues for enlightening all of us at Leavenworth County Head Start. --<i>Cynthia G. Daniel, Center Director, Leavenworth County Head Start, 700 North Third Street, Leavenworth, Kan.</i><br /><br />Children at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids:<br />If [children] are struggling or get too overwhelmed, this coloring book will help them relax and think of new ideas. --10-year-old twins Frank &amp; Theo at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids<br />It will help [children] learn things about cancer so they know more about a cancer journey, so they won't be more scared. --9-year-old Libby at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids<br /><i>A Day With Dr. Waddle</i> will help children relax if a family member or they have cancer. --7-year-old Lauren at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids<br />Dr. Waddle looks cool. --6-year-old Ethan at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids<br />Reading Dr. Waddle relaxes me. I'm excited to color it. --10-year-old Becca at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids --<i>Jacqueline Scherer, licensed clinical social worker at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids</i>
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  Sharyl J. Nass and Margie Patlak, _Rapporteurs_ National Cancer Policy Forum
  
  Board on Health Care Services
  
   **THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001**
  
  NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved
  by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are
  drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National
  Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
  
  This project was supported by Contract No. HHSN261200900003C between the
  National Academy of Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention and by the American Association for Cancer Research, the American
  Cancer Society, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the American
  Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, the
  Association of American Cancer Institutes, C-Change, the CEO Roundtable on
  Cance