How to navigate the holidays during cancer treatment

When a loved one is going through cancer treatment, the holidays look a little different. Maybe you have always hosted Thanksgiving dinner, but this year you’ve been overwhelmed helping your child through treatment. Perhaps your friends meet up to take their kids ice skating on New Year’s Day, but your child’s treatment has left them too weak to go this year. During a time of traditions, it can be difficult to “celebrate as usual” while balancing the health needs of your child. Children’s Cancer Research Fund teamed up with Momcology to ask cancer caregivers what advice they have for navigating the holidays during treatment.

Tools in Your Self-Care Toolbox

Being a cancer parent comes with a multitude of worries and challenges that make taking care of your family and yourself incredibly difficult – throw in a global pandemic and you have parents living with extraordinary levels of stress. For more tips from cancer caregivers, click here to read our blog, “Anxiety in the Time of Coronovirus.” During tough times, there is an opportunity to …

Celebrating Our Healthcare Workers

COVID-19 is a huge strain on healthcare workers, many of whom become like family members during our cancer experience. They see and care for these families in the most vulnerable moments. Not only do they provide excellent medical care, but many take the extra step of making hospital days a little brighter, scary moments a little calmer and happy moments a little sweeter. For more …

Anxiety in the Time of Coronavirus

For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought scary realizations to the forefront. We now know that our whole world can change overnight, and that our health is something we can’t take for granted. But for childhood cancer parents, these realizations hit when their child was diagnosed with cancer. And knowing that their child is in the high-risk category for the disease has triggered …

Our Focus During COVID-19

Our world looks much different than it did just a few weeks ago – since COVID-19 became a pandemic, daily routines have been upended. This crisis particularly impacts those who are fighting childhood cancer, whose immune systems are weakened by their treatments. We’re continuing to focus on the research and support programs that cancer families need now and in the future. We’re so grateful for …

How Cancer Makes Us Mighty

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the child and the family face challenges they never knew existed — but they also find strength they didn’t know they had. Cancer has a mighty fierce opponent in kids – because these kids are mighty strong, and their stories are mighty powerful. Through our partnership with Momcology, we asked cancer caregivers to tell us about a time …

Fighting Isolation as a Cancer Parent

Isolation – it’s one of the many painful challenges cancer families experience during and after treatment. Many parents feel they can’t leave their child’s side, and they feel guilty if they leave the hospital or the house to do things their child can’t. On top of it all, it can often feel like nobody else you know understands what your family is going through. But …