Kidz with Leukemia: A Space Adventure
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A CD-ROM game about leukemia for children.
Cost: USD 29.95 for families with children with cancer; USD 39.95 for all others;
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Contact company for discounted/bulk rates at info@kidzwithleukemia.comProduct Type
CD-ROM (PC compatible)
Who Is This Product For?
Pediatric patients (ages 4 to 11) diagnosed with leukemia (ALL or AML), their families, friends, and support network; Healthcare providers as teaching tools and/or while explaining diagnosis/treatment to children with cancer and their families; Pediatric oncology faculty while teaching fellows and medical students; Libraries who loan them to patrons interested in learning more about the illness; Cancer camps, where camp counselors and the children with cancer can play with the CDs and learn more about their illness, share their thoughts and experiences; Survivor clinics, one of whom is handing this CD out to those who had childhood leukemia; Schools for instructing classmates of a child with cancer.
Where Is This Product Supposed to Be Used?
Inpatient/outpatient settings (including children¿s hospitals, pediatric oncology clinic waiting rooms and teaching areas); patient homes; elementary schools; libraries; childhood cancer camps, childhood cancer organizations and foundations.
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Related Research
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Showcase
This product was part of the 2000 Linking Science and Business Showcase.
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Awards
- 1999: Outstanding Achievement Award (Commonwealth of Virginia); 2000: Cools for Kids Awards (Department of Health and Human Services Technology Games); 2001: Small Business Administration (SBA) Roland Tibbetts Award for Model of Excellence; 2002: All Star Software Award (or All Star Award ¿ Children¿¿s Software Revue
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Patient Educ Couns 2002; 46(4):297-307
Presentations
Organizations/Consortium Worked with During Project
- Children's Hospital of Columbus (Columbus, OH); Creative Video (Arlington, VA); Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC); ManTech Systems Engineering Corp. (formerly Tidewater Consultants, Inc.) (Arlington, VA); Special Love, Inc. (Winchester, VA); The US Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. (USP)
Patent, License, Trademark
- An ISBN number was also procured for this CD-ROM ¿ 978-0-9632020-2-2.
Who Has Purchased This Product?
- Five hundred and ten (510) copies of the leukemia CD-ROM have been sold in 6+ years, most of them within 37 of the US states. An additional 180 complimentary copies have been distributed all over the country. The largest number of CDs has been bought by pediatric oncology healthcare providers &; children¿¿s hospitals, followed by families with children with cancer. Additional purchasers include childhood cancer organizations, camps, libraries, schools, and a well-wisher who bought a few copies and distributed them amongst children with cancer. Fifty-eight (58) of the copies sold so far have been bought by healthcare providers abroad - in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Holland, Iceland, India, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
