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This Booklet Is For You
How To Use This Booklet
If your mom, dad, or an adult
close to you has cancer, this
booklet is for you.
Here you can read about what
has helped other teens get
through this tough time.
Doctors, nurses, social
workers, friends, and family
are working hard to help
your mom or dad get better.
You are a very important
part of that team, too.
In the weeks and months
ahead, you may feel a whole range of emotions.
Some days will be good, and things might seem like they used to.
Other days may be harder.
This booklet can help prepare you for some of the things you
might face. It can also help you learn to handle living with a
parent or relative who has cancer.
| Free copies of this booklet are available from the National
Cancer Institute (NCI). To learn more about cancer or to
request this booklet, visit NCI's Web site (www.cancer.gov).
You can also call NCI's Cancer Information Service at
1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) to order the booklet
or talk with an information specialist. |
You may want to read this booklet cover to cover. Or maybe
you'll just read those sections that interest you most. Some
teens pull the booklet out now and again when they need it.
You may want to share this booklet with your mom, dad,
brothers, and sisters. It might help you bring up something
that has been on your mind. You could ask people in your
family to read a certain chapter and then talk about it
together later.
We've put words that may be new to you in bold. Click on the words to see their definitions. |
