And to be honest after chemo the last thing on your mind is being desirable.

What should you not say to someone with cancer. If you know someone who had a bad experience with a treatment keep it to yourself. And lets talk about finding a. While you may be doing it with the best intentions trying to give someone.

20 Things You Should Never Say to Someone Battling Cancer 1 You should try this diet I read about. I care for you and Im here for you. Never say to someone that at least they have a good kind of cancer or that they dont really look that sick writes one cancer survivor.

But if youre going for an empathetic vibe leave out the part about other cancer patients dying. Cancer is a strange bedfellow. Well get through this together.

Somehow you go from being a normal person with normal desires to becoming this fragile human specimen sometimes on the cusp of life and death. Of course when someone we know has cancer we think of others we know who also had cancer. I can hear it has been really hard for you to share thank you for sharing.

The Importance of Staying in Touch. Ask the person with cancer if they would like to talk about the experience. I know someone who had cancer.

Everything is going to be fine The truth is you dont know that everything is going to be fine and this comment can sound dismissive says Kelly. Let me be blunt. Dont ask what you can do to help or say Let me know if you need anything.