Advice

When Kindness Keeps Us Going

When your family is facing cancer, you might feel like you are continually running on fumes. You haven’t showered, gone grocery shopping, or ...

Isolation – it’s one of the many painful challenges cancer families experience during and after treatment. Many parents feel they can’t l...

When your child is diagnosed with cancer, it changes the lens through which you view the world. Things look and feel different, and certain thi...

If you could go back to the day your child was diagnosed, what advice would you give yourself, knowing what you know now? This is the question ...

Occasionally, parents of children with cancer experience surprising and tense situations with clinical care teams. For Nicole, mother of acute ...

When you’re caring for a child with cancer, self-care could easily be the last thing on your mind. Caregivers frequently hear phrases like �...

When your family is facing childhood cancer, the friends who go above and beyond make all the difference. But if you are that friend or family ...

As any parent who has ever had a sick child knows, sometimes it takes more than a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. Helping kids ...

During the stress and uncertainty of cancer treatment, a home-cooked meal from a friend can be a welcome relief. If you're considering bringing...

If you are the kind of person who would gladly offer to make a meal or run errands for a family facing childhood cancer, but don’t know any p...

Cancer is a complicated disease, so it can be hard to explain it to your child if a friend or classmate has cancer. However, it is important fo...

If you know a child battling cancer, you may want to show you care with a gift. It might be hard to know what the child would enjoy most, or wh...

A cancer diagnosis may mean that plans will have to change from what they’ve been in the past. Maybe your sister always hosts Thanksgiving di...

If you’re planning to bring a gift to a friend battling cancer, you might not know that some traditional gifts are discouraged - even against...

Many cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy can become immunocompromised – this means their immune systems are very weak, and they a...

Being a sibling of a childhood cancer patient can be scary and confusing. Family dynamics change, schedules are unpredictable and schoolwork an...

In April 2014, doctors found a mass in Joe’s left kidney. Two months later, he was formally diagnosed with metastatic Ewing sarcoma. After he...

I never wanted to be in the hospital. Nothing about leaving my home for a week, skipping school or missing Friday night football games to have ...