A Guide for Teens When Your Parent Has Cancer.

When someone you love has advanced cancer. It can also be coordinating care and services or offering emotional support. This booklet covers making new decisions about care how to discuss issues and changes with the health care team getting support and asking for help life planning and advance directives talking with family and friends talking with children and teens about advanced. When someone close to you has cancer you may feel like you are on your own.

Support for caregivers National Cancer Institute US. When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer Young People With Cancer. When Someone You Love Has Completed Cancer Treatment is for friends and family members of a person who has finished cancer treatment.

Let them know that youre open to talking whenever they feel like it. Being a caregiver to someone you care about may mean helping with daily activities such as going to doctors visits or preparing food. To order or download call 1-800-4-CANCER 1-800-422-6237 or visit wwwcancergov.

Some may use the term to describe metastatic cancer while others might use it in other situations. When talking with someone who has cancer the most important thing is to listen. When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer When Your Parent Has Cancer These free booklets are available from the National Cancer Institute NCI.

San Francisco Public Library. A Guide for Teens. People may not know about all the things you have to do.

When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer is a booklet for friends and family members taking care of a person with advanced cancer. But once treatment is over many changes and shifts take place for everyone. From basic information about cancer and its causes to in-depth information on specific cancer types including risk factors early detection diagnosis and treatment options youll find it here.