What are the most-common questions you are asked by children whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer?
It can be just about any question from, ‘What is going to happen to my mom?’to ‘Is my mom’s hair ever going to grow back?’And you may wonder, why didn’t that child just ask Mom? Again, children are perceptive and they may sense that Mom may get upset or cry, and children try to avoid that. That is why the CLIMB program is so helpful, it promotes communication. What advice do you give to parents who have infants, where they aren’t able to tell them what’s going on, especially in a terminal cancer case? Regardless of the child’s age, this is a highly emotional issue. With the support of our multi-disciplinary team, including the social worker and psychiatrist in the cancer center, we can help patients as they face these challenges. We might ask them about information they would like to share with their child in the future, or suggest taking some time to write some stories and things that the child can look at in different times in their lives. One very special patient came to me at a poi
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