What's Up with Bridget's Mom? Medikidz Explain Breast Cancer

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Over a million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Female breast cancer incidence rates have increased by around 50% over the last 25 years. A child whose life has been touched by breast cancer is likely to require a clear and simple explanation of the common symptoms.
With this and other diseases and conditions in mind, Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair and Dr. Kate Hersov teamed up with a former Marvel graphic novel artist to create a series of comic books. Each comic is written by doctors and peer-reviewed by leading specialists in each respective therapy area. Medikidz is a resource designed to educate not only young patients, peers and their parents, but also to aid practitioners and educators in explaining health conditions as effectively as possible. The books follow a team of five larger than life superheroes. The Medikidz each specialise in explaining a different part of the body. What?s up with Bridget?s Mom? is an engaging way to educate children about Breast Cancer.
SYNOPSISBridget is a top student and star of her school soccer team. Her mom?s support means everything to her but lately she has no energy and stays in bed all day. Luckily, the Medikidz arrive on the scene to whisk Bridget to Mediland, a planet shaped like the human body, to what explain what is going on.
Join Bridget as she is taken on an educational journey inside the body to learn about cancer. Will Bridget return from Mediland with the knowledge she needs to understand her mom's condition?

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries (fancy, right?)